It is safe to assume that anyone with serious trouble breathing for other reasons is going to have similar problems. Thus, asthma, obesity and so on are also (probably) serious risk factors.
COPD having no effect is very confusing to me. I really wish we had numbers for asthma.
It looks like there’s actually some evidence that asthma isn’t that bad either. I suspect the reason is that a lot of the deaths among young people aren’t due to respiratory distress but rather blood clotting issues, which squares well with comorbidities like hypertension and obesity rather than COPD and asthma being the most dangerous.
How do you square COPD having no effect with
COPD having no effect is very confusing to me. I really wish we had numbers for asthma.
It looks like there’s actually some evidence that asthma isn’t that bad either. I suspect the reason is that a lot of the deaths among young people aren’t due to respiratory distress but rather blood clotting issues, which squares well with comorbidities like hypertension and obesity rather than COPD and asthma being the most dangerous.