Despite age being the greatest risk for hospitalization, critical illness, and death, Horwitz cautions everyone to take COVID-19 seriously. "It's important to distinguish population risk from individual risk," she says. "If you are young, that doesn't mean that you can't get the virus. Almost a third of our hospitalized patients are younger than 55. Similarly, having chronic diseases increases risk, but one in five of our hospitalized patients had no chronic conditions."
In addition to Horwitz and Petrilli, additional co-authors from NYU Langone Health are Simon A. Jones, PhD, Jie Yang, MPH, MS, Harish Rajagopalan, Luke O'Donnell, MD, Yelena Chernyak, Katie Tobin, MPH, Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, and Fritz Francois, MD. Funding for the study was provided in part by the Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund.
SOURCE NYU Langone Health
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