What do we think of the data now coming out showing smokers are much less likely to catch the coronavirus?
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6913e2.htm#T1_down
>Only 1.3% admitted to ICU are current smokers compared to around 15% smoking in total population
https://www.qeios.com/read/article/571
> In the study that two of us are reporting [1], the rates of current smoking remain below 5 % even when main confounders for tobacco consumption, i.e. age and sex, in- or outpatient status, were considered. Compared to the French general population, the Covid-19 population exhibited a significantly weaker current daily smoker rate by 80.3 % for outpatients and by 75.4 % for inpatients.
>Thus, current smoking status appears to be a protective factor against the infection by SARS-CoV-2.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7083240/
>Huang et al.11 studied the epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 among 41 patients. In this study, none of those who needed to be admitted to an ICU (n=13) was a current smoker.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6913e2.htm#T1_down
>Only 1.3% admitted to ICU are current smokers compared to around 15% smoking in total population
https://www.qeios.com/read/article/571
> In the study that two of us are reporting [1], the rates of current smoking remain below 5 % even when main confounders for tobacco consumption, i.e. age and sex, in- or outpatient status, were considered. Compared to the French general population, the Covid-19 population exhibited a significantly weaker current daily smoker rate by 80.3 % for outpatients and by 75.4 % for inpatients.
>Thus, current smoking status appears to be a protective factor against the infection by SARS-CoV-2.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7083240/
>Huang et al.11 studied the epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 among 41 patients. In this study, none of those who needed to be admitted to an ICU (n=13) was a current smoker.
