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Many of the young people who are hospitalized with COVID are smokers/vapers. It's thought that because of the particular type of receptors the virus binds to in the lung, which are also affected by smoking and vaping, that smokers and vapers might be more vulnerable than first thought. Either one should be considered to put even a young person into a high risk category.
Perhaps vapers are overrepresented among covid patients as well because of how much sharing of those devices goes on or correlation with other risky behaviors such as a lack of distancing.
In any case, among people you wouldn't normally expect to get hit this hard by a virus, smokers and vapers seem to be right alongside the obese, diabetics, and people with other chronic lung/heart issues. FWIW
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