Teresa Dowell
Theresa Dowell, DNP, PT is a family nurse practitioner and physical therapist, founder and medical director of Four Peaks Healthcare Associates in Flagstaff, Arizona, specializing in ME/CFS, Long COVID, and related complex conditions.
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Sep 30, 2026
Sophia ThomasHOST
Can you talk to us about the connection between what we often call comorbidities or now stacked risk in primary care and how these risks really lead to severe outcomes in COVID-19?
Teresa DowellGUEST
So I like to think of it as accumulated risk or risks that add up that would dictate disease progression.
Teresa DowellGUEST
So stack risk for COVID-19 comes from a study that was published this year in March, and it was on almost 400,000 veterans.
Sophia ThomasHOST
And then, so what are, when we talk about developing down the road, more problems, risks of long COVID, what do those symptoms look like when we talk about disease progression?