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People who are addicted to alcohol, drugs or nicotine are more difficult to tolerate coronavirus, so they urgently need vaccination against COVID-19, said the director of the National Scientific Center for Narcology, a branch of the Research Center for Psychiatry and Narcology. Serbian (subordinate to the Ministry of Health) Tatyana Klimenko.
“During the two years of the pandemic, a lot of information has been received that <...> those who smoke, and those who use drugs, and those who have problems with alcohol, are more likely to have a more severe course of coronavirus infection” , – said Klimenko (quote from TASS).
According to her, addicts have a higher risk of death with COVID-19. At the same time, they have no contraindications to vaccination, Klymenko continued. “They desperately need it,” she said.
Japanese scientists estimate an increase in the risk of severe COVID in smokers
In January, the National Research Center for International Health of Japan published a report in which scientists analyzed the relationship between smoking and the risk of severe COVID-19 in 17,600 hospitalized patients aged 20 to 80 years. The study found that smokers were 1.51 times more likely to need a ventilator in men and 1.94 times more likely to be in women than non-smokers.