[HN Gopher] Underlying Medical Conditions Among 540,667 Adults H...
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       Underlying Medical Conditions Among 540,667 Adults Hospitalized
       with Covid-19
        
       Author : nradov
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-07-01 19:56 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.cdc.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cdc.gov)
        
       | rockmartin wrote:
       | Fake because it's from the cdc
        
       | redis_mlc wrote:
       | Interesting to see numbers, but what percentage of US adults have
       | no underlying medical condition?
       | 
       | Maybe somebody can find a source for that.
       | 
       | For now they might as well say none of those hospitalized were
       | vampires. True, but also not meaningful.
        
       | gumby wrote:
       | > Hypertension and disorders of lipid metabolism were the most
       | frequent, whereas obesity, diabetes with complication, anxiety
       | disorders, and the total number of conditions
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       | Everyone probably could have guessed this result (doesn't mean
       | this is bad science!).
       | 
       | I wonder if this distribution is similar for all other (non-
       | covid-related) hospitalizations too.
        
         | nradov wrote:
         | Yes another study reached similar conclusions over a year ago.
         | It's good to have the results reproduced with a larger study.
         | 
         | https://feinstein.northwell.edu/news/the-latest/largest-covi...
        
         | trafalgarcircle wrote:
         | This is my first post on hackernews, I registered as I feel
         | this perspective isn't but should be considered: Many had
         | already came to this conclusion based on available data around
         | the middle of 2020; however, the body of this report (that the
         | virus mainly harms already-unhealthy individuals, not the
         | majority of the population) as well as the corollary
         | (widespread lockdowns are not required/will statistically do
         | more harm than good as only at-risk individuals should self-
         | isolate) were universally regarded as a "wild, baseless,
         | unhinged, and potentially sinophobic conspiracy theory" by most
         | social media, "fact" "checkers", and large news organizations;
         | sharing this CDC report's sentiment would result in the
         | individual sharing it experiencing "de-boosting" and "'platform
         | integrity' moderation activity" (hidden post and banning). Is
         | it the case that earlier insistence of "the science is settled"
         | and the corresponding moderation activity was too confident?
         | Major news organizations were stating as solid facts their
         | position on COVID-19's origins, as well as information
         | surrounding it, but are now walking back those claims - should
         | we reevaluate our confidence ratings we assign to news
         | agencies' outputs, or was this a special case? If so, why?
        
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