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Trump's age, health woes raise his risk for COVID-19 illness

by AP Chief Medical Writer
| October 3, 2020 12:03 AM

President Donald Trump has several strikes against him — age, obesity, elevated cholesterol and being male — that could put him at greater risk of becoming seriously ill from the coronavirus infection he disclosed early Friday.

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