Many things need to be taken into consideration when looking at the number of coronavirus deaths in Russia, like how the country — which has high rates of comorbid conditions — is attributing deaths to Covid-19, Kent Sepkowitz writes for CNNOpinion
Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
For almost two weeks, three countries have led the rest of the world in the daily number of new Covid-19 infections: The United States, Russia and Brazil. This makes some sense -- each is in the top 10 of most populous countries with well over 125 million people and each has a few very crowded cities. Furthermore, each country was disorganized and disbelieving as the disease settled in their region. But one important difference separates Russia from the other two nations.
Russia's health system under pressure from Covid-19 02:30Cardiac disease also is much more prevalent in Russia than Brazil. A recent study suggests that by any measurement, Russia has at least twice the rate of complications from cardiovascular disease as Brazil -- another reason Covid-19 death rates would be lower, not higher, in Brazil than Russia.No statistics for rates of chronic lung disease by country are available.
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