Former smokers most likely to be hospitalized, die from COVID-19, new UTMB study finds

Key Points

·A team of doctors and researchers looked at the medical records of 10,216 patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 and provided information about their smoking habits.

·Former smokers were the group most likely to end up hospitalized or die because of COVID-19.

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston looked at over 10,000 COVID-19 patients and found that si…