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Who gets this severe disease?

These are the risk factors for severe disease are the older age group, pre-existing
pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, which be HbA1c >7.6%, history

of hypertension, history of cardiovascular disease and obesity. These are the ones who
are more likely to get severe disease risk factors and these have been proven by

literature.