Not that I want to start a run on "new smokers", I am an "old one", and I am NOT a Doctor, like Trump
, but..........................
If a local population has say 15% smokers and 85% non-smokers, then it would be reasonable to assume Covid-19 cases that are in the hospital would reflect that.
And it was actually said at the onset of the outbreak that smokers were way more likely to get it because there fingers touch their mouths way more often than a non-smokers
Puff Puff Puff that cigarette
Well when they are doing the numbers, asking the question, smoker or non-smoker, it seems there are less than half of the percentage there should be, so in the above example(15%/85%) less then 7% of covid-19 patients in the hospital are smokers........it should actually be MORE than the 15%...............
But the bad news, for smokers, is they are 60% more likely to die of covid-19 than a non-smoker when they do get admitted to the hospital
This is not something media would ever report, quite the opposite, articles really push the higher mortality rate of a smoker once they are "in the system" which is fair enough that's where the current popular opinion lies
You have to look for the numbers that are available