{"id":17150,"date":"2020-11-13T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17150"},"modified":"2020-11-13T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:18:42","slug":"breakthrough-finding-reveals-why-certain-covid-patients-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17150","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Breakthrough Finding\u2019 Reveals Why Certain COVID Patients Die"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Dr. Megan Ranney has learned a lot about COVID-19 since she began treating patients with the disease in the emergency department in February.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s one question she still can\u2019t answer: What makes some patients so much sicker than others?<\/p>\n

Advancing age and underlying medical problems explain only part of the phenomenon, said Ranney, who has seen patients of similar age, background and health status follow wildly different trajectories.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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