COPD is actually much lower a comorbidity than many other conditions:
The most significant are Hypertension and Diabetes.
Each of these could have mild to severe as well. I know people with both Type I and Type 2. I know that Type 1 is much worse than type 2, but have no idea how they differentiate between mild and severe in Type 2.
I believe this lower number of COPD as a comorbidity is due to the increasing data of what this virus is actually doing in the body. The lungs are not a cause, as much as just a launching pad for the further body organ and cell damage.
Leading comorbidities in order are as follows: (Taken from the New York State Covid data)
- Hypertension
- Diabetes
- Hyperlipidemia (basically high HDL cholesterol
- Dementia (lower in US than EU countries)
- Coronary AD
- Renal
- COPD
- Atrial Fibrilation
- Cancer
This is the data from yesterdays video from Dr. John Campbell. He has great discussion about how herd immunity is coming along in the UK; how cases in London are way way down, but all the outlying regions of the country are increasing; this comorbidities data in NY State; other countries like Pakistan, Russia, South Africa.....
His international statistics are always quite valuable. The bit about comorbidities is at 22:00