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Who Faces The Greatest Risk Of Severe Illness From Coronavirus?

The data from China offers insights into the way different age groups are affected after being infected.
Health-care workers bring a patient into an ambulance at Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington. Two residents of the elder care facility who died had posthumous diagnoses of COVID-19.

Anyone can catch COVID-19, the disease caused by the newly identified coronavirus. But certain populations appear to be more vulnerable to its effects.

Consider the 9 deaths so far in the United States — all of them in Washington state.

Most of the people who died were residents of Life Care Center, a nursing facility in Kirkland, Washington. All but three of the victims were

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