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<ul><li>Earlier this month, a 42-year old journalist Pandurang Raikar succumbed to COVID-19 in Pune <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-journalist-death-covid-19-hospital-payment-delay-6579975/">after the hospital delayed admission</a> over advance payment. </li><li>There have been many cases where even affluent patients have failed to find space in hospitals. </li><li>The benefits of the lockdown i.e. adding beds before <keyword id="6418348" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="infections">infections</keyword> spike have fallen short of the requirement. </li></ul>Harshad Sanghvi, a builder from Ghatkopar, couldn’t get admitted to a hospital after suffering from a heart attack at 7.30 pm on 11 September. The reason was simple — there were no empty ICU beds, <a href="https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cover-story/builder-suffers-heart-attack-struggles-to-get-icu-bed-for-7-hrs/amp_articleshow/78096685.cms?__twitter_impression=true">reported Mumbai Mirror. </a> Soon after he had the stroke, his family rushed to Zen Hospital in Chembur, where the doctors suggested he had contracted COVID-19. His family was advised to admit him to a COVID-19 dedicated hospital. After struggling for around 7 hours, they were finally able to get a hospital bed. Sanghvi was among the lucky ones who could get a bed. However, in the past few months, there have been numerous reports of people dying because of lack of ICU beds. Earlier this month, a 42-year old journalist Pandurang Raikar succumbed to COVID-19 in Pune <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-journalist-death-covid-19-hospital-payment-delay-6579975/">after the hospital delayed admission</a> over advance payment. Pune has registered over one lakh coronavirus cases, and is fast emerging as the newest epicentre of coronavirus in India. “All this while, Pandurang was feeling uneasy and breathless and required urgent hospital admission. However, the hospital refused to admit him. They asked him to pay Rs 40,000 as advance fees. They told him that it will take a while to make the payment as other patients were in the queue,” Kunal Jaykar, <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-journalist-death-covid-19-hospital-payment-delay-6579975/">a close relative, told the media. </a> For the last 14 days, India has reported more than 1000 deaths. Every single day <div type="image" title="Flourish" msid="78142959" hostid="261"></div>The Indian government, on September 16, <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/63k-icu-beds-33k-ventilators-available/articleshow/78137810.cms">told Parliament</a> that there are 62,979 intensive care unit (ICU) beds and 32,862 ventilators available in COVID-19 dedicated government and private health facilities across the country. Maharashtra has the maximum number of ICU beds at 14,447, followed by Tamil Nadu, which has 8,439 ICU beds. However, the situation on-ground suggests they may not be enough. Mumbai, the only city in the country to have registered more than 4 lakh coronavirus cases, <a href="https://science.thewire.in/health/mumbai-covid-19-hospital-beds/">ran out of beds in May</a> when it had only 25,000 coronavirus cases. As of September 12, only 6% of ICU beds in Mumbai are available, according to an IIFL report dated September 14. New Delhi — which has 28,641 active coronavirus cases — is also facing a shortage of ICU beds. The Kejriwal government has 2,201 ICU beds for COVID-19 patients against a population of over two crore. Only 35% of the ICU beds are available in Delhi currently, according to the IIFL report. The Delhi government recently asked private hospitals to reserve 80% of the hospital beds for coronavirus patients. It <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-hospitals-run-out-of-beds-for-critical-covid-patients-6407221/">had only 4,750 beds for severely ill COVID-19 patients. </a> Poor bed availability is an issue that has plagued India <div type="image" title="BCCL" msid="78142993" hostid="261"></div> India is the second-worst hit COVID-19 country in the world and has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/indias-covid-19-number-crosses-5-million-mark-and-last-one-million-cases-in-just-11-days/articleshow/78139916.cms">registered over 5 million cases </a>with 80,000 deaths so far. Over the past few days, India has been adding over 90,000 coronavirus cases daily, the highest any country has ever recorded globally. The crucial reason for the shortage of beds and other glaring concerns is India’s lower health budget. For several years, India had been spending less than 2% of its GDP on healthcare, making it one of the lowest investors in the sector globally. Notably, Brazil, Russia, South Africa spend about 8.3%, 7.1%, and 8.8% in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/why-indias-health-budget-needs-more-infusion/articleshow/70082859.cms">the public healthcare sector respectively. </a>The World Health Organisation in 2019 placed India’s healthcare spending behind Iraq and Venezuela. Between 2014 and 2017, India’s bed per population ratio changed by merely 0.60%. Also, there are regional disparities at every level. For instance, urban hospitals in India <a href="https://www.indiaspend.com/why-indias-public-health-facilities-may-suffer-despite-a-likely-rise-in-health-spending/">have more beds than rural hospitals</a>, according to the National Health Profile. Change in Population-Doctor-Bed Ratios between 2014 and 2017 <table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none; width: 468pt; table-layout: fixed;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Indicators </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">2014 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">2017 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Change </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Average Population per Doctor at Government Hospitals </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">11,528 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">11,082 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">-4.00% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Average Population per Government Hospital Bed </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">1,833 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">1,822 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">0.60 </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Average Population per Government Hospital </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">61,011 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">55,591 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">-9% </td></tr></tbody></table>Source: <a href="https://www.indiaspend.com/why-indias-public-health-facilities-may-suffer-despite-a-likely-rise-in-health-spending/">National Health Profile </a> The lack of beds isn’t the only problem that India’s overwhelmed hospitals are facing. There’s a lack of oxygen cylinders and medical staff too. “With the country working round-the-clock to expand COVID-19 care facilities, the increase in the number of ICU beds will facilitate the early transfer of severe cases to ICU and faster action on severe cases. Apart from increasing the number of ICU beds, the training and skill development of the staff and crew set to work on COVID cases is very important, Dr Hardik Ajmera, Deputy Medical Director, Saifee Hospital, told Business Insider. . Moreover, according to Dr Vanita Mande from Suasth Hospital, India should have a COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool in place as recommended by WHO. <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/alert-on-icu-bed-shortage/cid/1780745">According to a recent government estimate,</a> India needs to spend ₹25 lakh crore to fight the epidemic — that’s five times the health budget and about 166 times more than what the government is currently planning to spend. 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India’s surging COVID-19 infections is testing the health infra once again — beds added during lockdown aren’t enough

Spread of new epidemics is always dreadful. A new member of the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="coronavirus">Coronavirus</keyword> family, 2019-nCoV has alarmed the whole world. Here are the best practices recommended by the WHO for the prevention and cure of 2019-nCoV. How to reduce the risk of coronavirus infection Clean your hands thoroughly for about 20 seconds with soap and water. Alcohol based hand rub can also work well. While coughing or sneezing, cover your mouth and nose with tissue and discard it immediately after. Do not stay in close proximity to people infected with cold or flu-like illnesses. Before consuming eggs or meat, cook them thoroughly. Do not have any unprotected contact with farm animals or wild animals. How to protect yourself and others from getting infected Wash your hands thoroughly after coughing or sneezing. Exercise care while taking care of the affected. Before, during and after preparing your food, wash your hands. Before eating, after using the toilet, when your hands get dirty and after handling animals or animal waste, it is essential to wash your hands thoroughly. Prevent yourself from getting sick Do not have any unprotected contact with affected people. It is risky to touch the affected people’s nose, eyes or mouth. Never touch farm animals or wild animals. Food safety measures x`For raw meat and cooked foods, use different chopping boards and knives. Between handling raw foods and cooked foods, wash your hands thoroughly. Food safety measures Never consume dead or sick animals that are suspected to have contracted the disease causing germs. If food safety practices are followed properly, meat foods can be consumed safely even in areas where the outbreak is experienced. To achieve this end, meat must be thoroughly cooked and handled properly while food is cooked. How to stay healthy while shopping in wet markets After touching animals and animal products, wash your hands thoroughly. Never touch eyes, mouth and nose. Never get in contact with spoiled meat or sick animals. Stay far from stray animals, fluids in the market and animal waste. What safety measures to practice while working in wet markets After touching animals and animal products, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water. At least a few times in a day, disinfect the equipment and working area. When you handle animal products and animals, wear gloves and gowns to protect yourself. Never underestimate the importance of facial mask. Remove the protective clothing immediately after work and wash them thoroughly, it is good to leave them in the work site. Never expose the family members to soiled clothing and shoes especially those that are used in the workplace in the wet markets. Safety measures while travelling Avoid travelling while having fever and cough. If you need to travel, use a face mask and avoid contact with people on the move. Discard your one-time use mask and wash your hands thoroughly after handling the mask. Avoid contact with animals and animal products while travelling.

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<ul><li>Scientists now have a map for how the human immune system responds to a <keyword id="1559124" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="coronavirus-infection">Coronavirus infection</keyword>.</li><li>Using that information, the researchers were able to correctly predict when a patient will recover from an infection.</li><li>The study published in Nature Medicine was able to identify four types of immune cells.</li><li>The discovery could ‘fast track’ a potential cure, according to Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt.</li></ul>The hunt for a cure to the Coronavirus may not be on the market yet, but scientists are scrambling to understand how the infection works — in order to thump it out for good. A team of researchers in Australia now have a map for how the human immune system responds to a Covid-19 infection by studying some of the first people who were diagnosed with the disease. With a map to guide them, scientists can predict the course of the virus. They were able to identify four types of immune cells, according to the study published in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0819-2">Nature Medicine</a>. According to Australia’s Health Minister <a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia-research/australian-researchers-map-immune-response-to-coronavirus-idINKBN2140KA">Greg Hunt</a>, this could help ‘fast-track’ a potential vaccine. Being able to predict when a person will recover from coronavirus A 47-year old woman from Wuhan who recovered within 14 days had specific cells in her bloodstream, which corresponded to the same type of cells in influenza patients before they recover. “Three days after the patient was admitted, we saw large populations of several immune cells, which are often a tell-tale sign of recovery during seasonal influenza infection, so we predicted that the patient would recover in three days, which is what happened,” aid <a href="https://about.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2020/march/covid-19-the-immune-system-can-fight-back">Oanh Nguyen</a>, co-author of the study. The next step for the scientists is to figure out why the immune system response was weaker in other patients. However, they assert that even though Covid-19 is something new — a healthy immune system has the tools to fight it off. “We showed that even though COVID-19 is caused by a new virus, in an otherwise healthy person, a robust immune response across different cell types was associated with clinical recovery, similar to what we see in influenza,” said <a href="https://about.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2020/march/covid-19-the-immune-system-can-fight-back">Katherine Kadzierska</a>, who also collaborated on the study. Meanwhile, the world’s fastest supercomputer is also on the job <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-joins-the-battle-against-coronavirus-to-find-cure/articleshow/74725396.cms">trying to find a cure for Coronavirus</a>. It has identified 77 different compounds which prevent Covid-19 from spreading once it has infected its host. IBM’s massive Summit supercomputer also helped scientists create a 3D map of one of the proteins within the virus, which is key to the infection’s replication process. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/the-cost-of-containing-coronavirus-the-world-has-set-aside-3-trillion-so-far/articleshow/74725124.cms">The cost of containing Coronavirus — the world has set aside $3 trillion so far</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-joins-the-battle-against-coronavirus-to-find-cure/articleshow/74725396.cms">The world's fastest supercomputer joins the battle against coronavirus — and it's speeding up the hunt for a cure</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/ahmedabad-follows-maharashtra-to-stamp-home-quarantine-on-suspects/articleshow/74725859.cms">Ahmedabad follows Maharashtra to stamp ‘home quarantine’ on suspects</a>

Scientists now have a map for how Coronavirus infects the human body

Berlin, Apr 8 () Scientists have discovered which cells of the lungs and bronchi are targets for novel coronavirus infection, findings that may aid in the development of novel drug candidates to treat COVID-19. The study, published in The EMBO Journal, revealed that the receptor for the virus is abundantly expressed in the progenitor cells of the respiratory tract which have hair-like projections to sweep mucus and bacteria out of the lungs. Researchers, including those from the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) in Germany, analysed samples of twelve lung cancer patients obtained from the Heidelberg Lung Biobank in Germany. They also studied cells from the airways of healthy patients, which had been collected in a minimally invasive manner during a bronchoscopy examination performed to rule out lung cancer. "I was convinced that the data we gathered from these non-coronavirus infected patients would provide important information for understanding the viral infection," said study co-author Roland Eils from BIH. "We wanted to find out which specific cells the coronavirus attacks," explained Christian Conrad, who also works at the BIH. The scientists said the virus' spike protein attaches to an ACE2 receptor on the cell surface. In addition, they said the virus needs one or more co-factors for it to be able to penetrate cells. Using single-cell sequencing technology, the researchers sequenced the genome of 60,000 cells. "We then analysed a total of nearly 60,000 cells to determine whether they activated the gene for the receptor and potential co-factors, thus in principle allowing them to be infected by the coronavirus," said Soeren Lukassen, one of the lead authors of the study. "We only found the gene transcripts for ACE2 and for the cofactor TMPRSS2 in very few cells, and only in very small numbers," Lukassen said. The scientists discovered that certain progenitor cells in the bronchi are mainly responsible for producing the coronavirus receptors. These progenitor cells, they said, normally develop into respiratory tract cells lined with hair-like projections called cilia that sweep mucus and bacteria out of the lungs. "Armed with the knowledge of which cells are attacked, we can now develop targeted therapies," explained co-author Michael Kreuter from the Thorax Clinic at Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany. According to the study, the ACE2 receptor density on the cells increased with age, and was generally higher in men than in women. "This was only a trend, but it could explain why SARS-CoV-2 has infected more men than women," Eils said. However, the scientists said the sample sizes are too small to make conclusive statements, adding that the study needs to be repeated in larger patient cohorts. "These results show us that the virus acts in a highly selective manner, and that it is dependent on certain human cells in order to spread and replicate," Eils explained. "The better we understand the interaction between the virus and its host, the better we will be able to develop effective counterstrategies," he added. VIS VISVIS

'Which lung cells are susceptible to coronavirus infection decoded'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>One in three young adults have at least one risk factor that could result in severe <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> infections, a <a href="https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(20)30338-4/fulltext#bib25">new study</a> found.</li><li>The researchers determined that <keyword id="6357278" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="smoking">smoking</keyword> was the most prevalent risk factor for people in their late teens and 20s.</li><li>Other factors like underlying diseases or <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-key-mild-severe-cases-genes-receptors-2020-5">genetic differences</a> could also put young people at risk of severe infection.</li></ul>It's become almost common knowledge that young people are less vulnerable to severe <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> infections.Adults from 18 to 49 made up around 25% of hospitalized coronavirus patients in March, whereas those 65 and older represented around 43%, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e3.htm?s_cid=mm6915e3_w">according to</a> the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Adults 18 to 44 years old <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e1.htm?s_cid=mm6928e1_w">made up just 2% of coronavirus deaths</a> from February to May, while people 65 and above represented nearly 80%.But certain factors that can put anyone at risk of serious illness, regardless of age. A <a href="https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(20)30338-4/fulltext">new study</a> from researchers at the University of California, San Francisco determined that one in three young adults ages 18 to 25 are vulnerable to severe COVID-19 cases.Patients were considered vulnerable if they had least one risk factor, including a smoking habit or chronic illness like heart disease, diabetes, asthma, obesity, autoimmune disease, or liver problems.The researchers discovered that smoking was by far the most prevalent risk factor for people in their late teens and 20s. Of the roughly 8,400 young adults in the study, around 25% said they had smoked tobacco, e-cigarettes, or cigars in the last 30 days.By contrast, only about 16% reported having a chronic illness. Asthma was by far the most common: Around 9% of young adults reported that they were asthmatic. That's compared to around 12% who said they'd smoked tobacco in the last 30 days and around 7% who said they'd used e-cigarettes."The risk of being medically vulnerable is halved when smokers, including <keyword id="491563" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="E-cigarette">e-cigarette</keyword> users, are removed from the sample," the researchers wrote. Only about one in six young adults who didn't smoke were vulnerable to severe COVID-19 illness, the study found.The findings came just days after the World Health Organization warned about the link between smoking and severe coronavirus cases."Smoking kills 8 million people a year, but if users need more motivation to kick the habit, the pandemic provides the right incentive," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at <a href="https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---10-july-2020">a press briefing</a> on Friday. "Evidence reveals that smokers are more vulnerable than non-smokers to developing a severe case of COVID-19."<h2>Smoking habits differ among men and women</h2><div type="image" title="smoking coronavirus face mask" height="5304" width="7952" msid="76949874" hostid="261"></div>The UCSF study found that the risk of severe coronavirus infections from smoking or e-cigarette use was highest among young, white males with lower incomes who were uninsured for at least part of the year. Research has shown that white people are <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743519301331?via%3Dihub">more likely to be daily smokers</a> compared to other racial groups, though people of color face other coronavirus risk factors that weren't included in the study. Black and Hispanic people, for instance, are more likely to hold service-industry jobs that increase their risk of coronavirus exposure. The results may also be skewed by the fact that the study examined far more white adults (55%) than Hispanic (22%) or Black (13%) adults.Around 16% of the young adults who reported smoking in the study were men. Only 9% were young women. But women in the study had higher rates of asthma and autoimmune conditions like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis. On the whole, that mostly offset the fact that fewer women smoke: 30% of young women in the study were vulnerable to severe COVID-19 infections compared to 33% of young men.<h2>Genetic factors could also increase the risk severe infection</h2><div type="image" title="coronavirus test testing facility swab seattle low income housing" height="1600" width="2400" msid="76949878" hostid="261"></div>Since the coronavirus attacks the respiratory system first, patients who already suffer from <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5982072/">smoking-related lung damage or inflammation</a> could develop more severe respiratory problems as a result of COVID-19.Research also suggests that smokers have <a href="https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2020/04/01/13993003.00524-2020">higher expressions of ACE-2 receptors</a> — the cell receptors that the coronavirus uses to invade the body — in their airways. People with more ACE2 receptors seem to have a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-key-mild-severe-cases-genes-receptors-2020-5">higher risk of severe COVID-19 infection</a> as well.But even young patients without a smoking habit or underlying health conditions could still be at risk of a serious case of COVID-19. People ages 18 to 29 make up more than <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html">four times as many coronavirus hospitalizations</a> as they did a few months ago: around 38 hospitalizations out of every 100,000 people as of July 4, compared to nine hospitalizations out of every 100,000 people on April 18.Some young, healthy patients have also reported feeling <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/long-term-coronavirus-symptoms-patients-sick-for-months-2020-7">sick for several months</a>, with lasting symptoms like chest pain and shortness of breath. That could be the result of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-key-mild-severe-cases-genes-receptors-2020-5">genetic differences</a> that result in a higher expression of ACE2 receptors or that trigger a more aggressive immune response.But unlike many risk factors, smoking is one that can be prevented."Efforts to reduce smoking and e-cigarette use among young adults would likely reduce their medical vulnerability to severe illness," the UCSF researchers wrote. Their findings, they added, underscore "the importance of smoking prevention and mitigation."

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