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VistaCruiserJesus t1_ist2ptv wrote

Reply to comment by NotYourSnowBunny in Severe COVID-19 may increase the risk for schizophrenia by chrisdh79

This is totally me spitballing, but I wouldn’t be surprised if schizophrenic people are on average higher stress. Higher levels of cortisol will decrease the strength of your immune system.

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DrAdubyale t1_isuq8bv wrote

That's the thing. There are so many plausible hypotheticals that its hard to tell. Like that makes perfect sense. But so do a lot of other options

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MikeWalt t1_isuyhf7 wrote

Is say it's more likely that schizophrenics are living in communal spaces (shelters etc) and working low wage jobs which tend to be higher risk for infection.

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NotYourSnowBunny t1_ist34a0 wrote

Interesting. I’ve no idea what the correlation was from and I don’t have the study on hand.

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