COVID: Risk of severe disease could be in your blood
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7 March 2022COVID: Risk of severe disease could be in your blood
Multiple factors play a role in complex diseases like COVID, and knowing what they are is important for predicting how different people will be affected. Early on in the pandemic, being older, overweight or smoking were identified as increasing your risk of developing severe COVID. This then informed public health decisions—the elderly were prioritized in the vaccine rollout, for example.
