“Two or more long-term health conditions linked to positive COVID-19 tests,” by Alicia Lasek, McKnight’s LTC News

Quote:

“Multimorbidity and polypharmacy puts individuals at a higher risk of testing positive for COVID-19, a new study has found. Non-white ethnicity was also linked to testing positive. … Overall, people with multimorbidity who had the highest risk were those from socioeconomically deprived areas, of non-white ethnicity, considered severely obese, and who had reduced renal function, reported study lead Barbara Nicholl, Ph.D., from the University of Glasgow.”

 

 

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

It is as though this disease targets people likely to rely on Medicaid in the U.S.