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by bildung 2287 days ago
> lethal to those at the medical fringes (eg. 99% of cases in Italy have existing health problems

The most common existing health problems from the study[0]:

* Diabetes - 29% of the US population affected

* Hypertension - 45% of the US population affected

Hardly "fringe".

[0] https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-C...