Moreover, how can you even tell that it’s really a corona case. Don’t these underlying conditions require hospital care as well?
, include diabetes, lung disease, cancer, immunodeficiency, heart disease, hypertension, kidney disease, and asthma.
Best guess here is that most of the aforementioned conditions don't necessarily require hospitalization, unless they are exacerbated and causing pathological effects.
Diabetes is very common and millions of Americans have it and manage it at home. Lung disease (say COPD, Asthma, Bronchitis) can also be managed at home. Cancer, depending on the stage, can also be handled at home with outpatient chemo infusions. Immunodeficiency is a broad term, but millions of Americans have HIV and don't require constant hospitalization (again, immunodeficiency can also include other conditions like cancer). Heart disease is another broad term, but things like hypertension are managed at home, unless you have a hypertensive crisis. Kidney disease can be devastating, but even people with end stage renal failure are able to get outpatient dialysis. Asthma rarely requires hospitalization if I had to guess, unless they have an exacerbation which their inhaler can't treat.
Again, I'm no doctor, so please don't go by my guesses. What I do read online is that having certain risk factors can complicate your outcomes if infected by COVID-19 (obesity, heart disease, lung disease, immunosuppressed etc).
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