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COPD patients have increased risk of severe pneumonia and poor outcomes when they develop COVID-19. This may be related to poor underlying lung reserves or increased expression of ACE-2 receptor in small airways.https://bit.ly/37dSB8l
Leung et al. (2020) studied this question.
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