Dr. Colleen Payne-Nabors joined Marc Cox to explain startling new news that apparently shows that smokers are less likely to get Covid, and French researchers are studying that trend.
Payne-Nabors is the founder and CEO of MCI Diagnostics, and tells Cox, "it was an early on study in early April, 2020, when we were just trying to figure out anything that stuck. We were looking at, did this help? Did this cure? What we didn't know at that time of the study, is how much effect a year later people are suffering with lung conditions."
"We don't find any evidence currently that would say that smokers are protected, because one of the things we now know, is evidence has told us, and history. We don't have a lot of history with this [Covid-19], but we do jave more information that suggests, you know, people that smoke have significant underlying conditions, and most of them are related to respiratory," says Payne-Nabors, "this virus attacks the respiratory, the lung-system."
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