Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
World Health Organization: Public Health Advice
Dr. David Nabarro:
I do not have the absolute figures on that immediately, but we will be getting them. I want to say the following: most deaths, as we have just discussed, are in older people. Often, there are also deaths involving people who have got diabetes or hypertension. If you are male, you have got a higher risk. If you are obese, the risk seems to be much higher. If we bring it all together, an old person who has diabetes, who is obese and who is a man, has a super-high risk. This is a global phenomenon; it is not just restricted to Ireland.
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