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📰 Covid-19 Poses More Risk to Patients With Chronic Illnesses - and That’s Bad for the U.S.
2019冠狀病毒對有慢性病患構成更多的風險，這個情況對美國來說是件壞事。
🖋 pose 跟 risk搭配，patient 和 chronic illness是常用詞匯。
Scientists now have a better idea of how much extra risk faced by people with other conditions such as diabetes.
📌 這一段說科學家現在對患有糖尿病等狀況的人所面對的風險有更好的理解。
🖋 have a better idea of 是個道地的説法，它源於 have a good idea of。
Scientists are developing a clearer picture of the extra risk of dying from Covid-19 borne by those with underlying health conditions, an aspect of the disease that researchers say might help explain why some countries suffer worse outbreaks than others.
📌 這段繼續介紹科學家的工作，並解釋他們的工作有助於解釋，為什麼一些國家比起其他國家面對病毒的爆發(outbreak)更加嚴重。
The bad news for the U.S.: Some of the conditions associated with the highest risk, such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes, are more prevalent in the U.S. than other comparable countries.
📌 這段聚焦美國的情況，the bad news 跟標題的bad呼應。除了diabetes，這段提述obesity和heart disease，這也是現代人的常見疾病。
“If we had better health outcomes, if we had less diabetes, less hypertension, less cardiovascular disease, then we would probably not see the morbidity and mortality that we see today from Covid-19,” said Monique J. Brown, an assistant professor of public health at the University of South Carolina.
📌 這段引述南卡羅萊納州大學助理教授的話，hypertension和cardiovascular disease也是常見的疾病。morbidity和mortality是相對專業的詞匯。
Some 15 million people world-wide have been infected with the new coronavirus, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More than 624,000 deaths globally have been attributed to Covid-19, the disease it causes, with 143,000 of those in the U.S. Case numbers are rising in large parts of the U.S. after restrictions on daily life were eased.
📌 這段也引述約翰霍普金斯大學的數據。
🖋 attributed to (歸因於)，是表述因果關係的用語，ease 是動詞(跟easy有關聯的)，他常與restriction搭配。
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