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Old 03-25-2020, 03:17 PM
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Your SOURCE is accurate enough, but your INTERPRETATION of it is NOT. Per your own post, the CDC gave a list of persons who are at INCREASED RISK. Increased risk is NOT, repeat NOT equivalent to being immunocompromised.

You also posted that type 2 DM may be autoimmune in nature. An autoimmune disease, does NOT necessarily mean the patient is immunocompromised. Some autoimmune diseases do lead to immunocompromise, such as lupus. Others, such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis do not
If I understand golfing eagles point it is like the analogy that " all cocker spaniels are dogs, but not all dogs are cocker spaniels." Am I getting you right, doc?