are system in New York City revealed common comorbidities, including hypertension (56.6%), obesity (41.7%), and diabetes (33.8%), and reported that 373 patients (14.2%) required treatment in the intensive care unit, and 320 patients (12.2%) received invasive mechanical ventilation, in whom the mortality rate was 88.1% (282 of 320)].5
Angiotensin converting enzyme II, believed to be the target entry receptor for SARS-CoV-2, is abundantly expressed in gastric, duodenal,