Health experts warn that, in addition to older people and those with compromised immune systems, smokers and vapers who get COVID-19 can probably expect a more severe infection.
WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2020 -- Smokers and vapers who get COVID-19 can probably expect a more severe infection, health experts warn.diabetes
If you vape,"you're going to make lungs more vulnerable to severe infection," said Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, an American Lung Association spokesman who is also director of the tobacco treatment clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore. "The odds of disease progression were 14 times higher among people with a history of smoking," he wrote, calling on the public to stop smoking and vaping, and to also steer clear ofBecause vaping is a recent phenomenon, less is known about its harmful long-term effects than about smoking tobacco, which has been studied for decades.
Dr. Sucharita Kher, director of the outpatient pulmonary clinic at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, said animal studies have shown e-cigarette vapor"adversely affects the lung cells' ability to fight against a virus."
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