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<blockquote data-quote="Tannith" data-source="post: 2261937" data-attributes="member: 422465"><p>1.2 million in the uk have diagnosed COPD. 3.9 million have diagnosed diabetes - more than 3 times as many. So I would expect that if 15% of the total deaths are in people with COPD, then there would be more than 3 times as many deaths with diabetes (3.25% to be exact) ie more than 45%, (48.75% to be exact) if diabetes were as serious a comorbidity . Yet diabetic death rate is only 26%. So diabetes is around half as dangerous as COPD from a covid point of view. Perhaps that is why diabetics aren't asked to shield unless they have something else as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tannith, post: 2261937, member: 422465"] 1.2 million in the uk have diagnosed COPD. 3.9 million have diagnosed diabetes - more than 3 times as many. So I would expect that if 15% of the total deaths are in people with COPD, then there would be more than 3 times as many deaths with diabetes (3.25% to be exact) ie more than 45%, (48.75% to be exact) if diabetes were as serious a comorbidity . Yet diabetic death rate is only 26%. So diabetes is around half as dangerous as COPD from a covid point of view. Perhaps that is why diabetics aren't asked to shield unless they have something else as well. [/QUOTE]
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