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If you got chronic pain, are you gonna get covid more easily than others?
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SAFE: Chronic pain does not increase your chance to get the COVID virus.
Answered 5/5/2020
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Chronic pain is not: one of the conditions identified as risk for worse outcome. Uncontrolled underlying conditions that ^ risk include liver or chronic lung disease, chronic kidney disease with dialysis, diabetes, severe obesity, serious cardiac illness, being immunocompromised (immunodeficiency, cancer treatments, transplant recipients, smokers & chronic steroid use).
Answered 5/5/2020
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