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'We鈥檝e all become used to hearing this phrase "underlying conditions" in the context of COVID-19. Our unfortunate newsreaders have to keep repeating it in the daily litany of statistics and particularly the grim daily toll of COVID-19 deaths. We are told that in the vast majority of cases where an individual does badly with this infection that they suffered from one or more underlying condition (by which is usually meant, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, asthma鈥�. What are often and misleadingly called 鈥渘on-communicable diseases鈥�). And when we鈥檙e told that they didn鈥檛 have any of these, there is, I think, an extra palpable sense of shock and horror...'

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• Music: Best of Feelings and the BBC Sound Archive
• Producers and Editors: Albert Brenchat-Aguilar and Catherine Stokes
• Communications: Patricia Mascarell Llombart
• Executive Producer: Tamar Garb