What Puts Patients at Risk
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
As Covid-19 spreads, doctors are learning more about why some patients get very sick, and why others only get mildly ill. Some of the people most at risk for severe illness have underlying conditions that affect their lungs. Older people are also at a higher risk. But certain factors, when combined with age, create a powder keg for the effects of the disease. Both smoking and obesity are conditions that can lead to fatal results in Covid-19 patients. Bloomberg Senior Editor Jason Gale explains how these conditions have made the coronavirus more lethal in some countries.
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| 0:40.6 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 50 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Our main story? We know that older people and those with lung disease and serious |
| 0:47.4 | heart conditions are at a higher risk of dying from COVID-19. But researchers are learning that other factors can also make the virus deadly. |
| 0:58.6 | Two of them are smoking and obesity. |
| 1:02.6 | Understanding that also helps us understand why the virus seems to work differently in |
| 1:08.3 | different places. |
| 1:10.5 | But first, here's what happened today. |
| 1:17.6 | If it's Thursday, that means it's another week |
| 1:20.9 | where we talk about a number in the millions |
| 1:23.1 | that we used to count in the hundreds of thousands. |
| 1:27.4 | Unemployment. |
| 1:29.1 | Over 3.8 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week. |
| 1:35.0 | Since the pandemic began shutting down businesses across the country six weeks ago, |
| 1:39.9 | over 30 million have now applied. |
| 1:43.4 | Tomorrow, we'll find out what the unemployment rate was for the month of April. |
| 1:48.5 | But experts say it could be as high as 22%. |
| 1:52.9 | We haven't seen a number like that since the Great Depression of the 1930s. |
| 2:00.9 | The Food and Drug Administration says it is moving at lightning speed to review data on the |
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