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At least 400 people have died from coronavirus in Wisconsin. Here’s what trends are emerging.

Quoted: These conditions are important to help understand who is most vulnerable to the disease and how to take protective measures, according to Dr. Patrick Remington, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

But Remington cautioned against “othering” people, thinking that COVID-19 is a problem affecting someone else.

“Remember, most Americans have comorbidities,” said Remington, a former CDC epidemiologist and now the director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program at Madison.  “I wouldn’t want anyone to think this is another person’s disease.”