92% of Cook County Covid-19 Victims Had Pre-Existing Conditions
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" - Hypertension affected 1,070 victims, or more than 46 percent of all deaths.
- Diabetes impacted 973 victims, or 42 percent of the total.
- Pulmonary[affecting the lungs] disease was part of 397 deaths, or 17 percent.
- 215 of those deaths, about 9 percent, were accompanied by obesity or morbid obesity.
Yet others had conditions including cancer and cardiovascular and kidney diseases. The numbers above add up to more than 100 percent because many victims had more than one pre-existing condition."