Quote Originally Posted by Mike T View Post
The story with smokers is said by some to be a statistical artefact - something to do with allocating risk to groups - how do you separate smoking from gender, from income, from lung pathology, from cancer - and so on.
Strange how they seem to be able to strip out ethnicity, obesity, gender.... but as soon as you mention smoking it is said by some….

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...d-19-survival/

Article here with some links to some work done.

https://www.qeios.com/read/FXGQSB
A bit technical for me, but some might like a read.

But the point I'm trying to make is that sometimes these virus just burn out in the population and the section of society that has developed anti-bodies only seems to be part of the story.