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greentricky

Someone asked ages ago if smokers were a higher risk group, Government just published a bulletin based on a study in China that showed they are 14 times more likely to develop severe repository disease from Covid-19

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/smokers-at-greater-risk-of-severe-respiratory-disease-from-covid-19?

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in reply to @greentricky

There's also, I read the other day, been an spike in people reaching out to organizations which offer help quitting.

A few weeks in isolation could help a lot of people in that regard.

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skinny in reply to @

Judging by the number of unfit people out doing exercise, many have shit bricks and woken up to it's importance.

I wonder if that will subside once the influenza does.

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