Research shows around 350 million will likely get sick enough to require hospital treatment. FMTNews
A nurse performs a coronavirus test on a suspected patient in Salt Lake City on Friday.
A team of experts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine analysed global data sets of illnesses including diabetes, lung disease and HIV used these to estimate how many people are at heightened risk of serious Covid-19 infection. “As countries move out of lockdown, governments are looking for ways to protect the most vulnerable from a virus that is still circulating,” said Andrew Clark, who contributed to the study.
Consistent with other studies about Covid risk, the authors found that older people are in greater danger of getting seriously unwell from the virus.
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