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undergoing dialysis
• People with liver disease

If you are an individual that fits into one of those
descriptions above, then you should absolutely take
precautions to ensure that you do not get the virus.
When you look at Italy’s numbers and the statistics of
who died from the virus, you get a very clear picture of

who is at risk. According to Bloomberg, 99.2 percent
of people that died in Italy from the coronavirus were
older and had other illnesses. In fact, the average age
of those that died was seventy-nine. All of the people
who died under the age of forty had serious medical
conditions. Thus, the probability of someone under
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the age of sixty-five with normal health at risk of

dying from the coronavirus is very low.
When you look at the statistics in the United
States, it tells the same story. When you take an in
depth look at the first 100 people who have died in
the US from the coronavirus you see examples like:

• A ninety-year old resident of Sacramento
County who had underlying health conditions
and was in an assisted living facility

• A sixty-nine-year-old man from Bergen County
who had a history of diabetes, hypertension,
atrial fibrillation, gastrointestinal bleeding,

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