The following obit is a perfect example of why I don't think it's that fruitful to continually focus on demographics and risk factors and accessibility to health care, along the lines of victim olympics (though that is undoubtedly helpful for epidemiology as to controlling infection spread).

If this guy can't be sure of being saved, who can? As far as death and disability from this virus, it's just a crap shoot.

Dr. Barry Webber, Surgeon Who Stuck With His Patients, Dies at 67

A rock climber, tinkerer and musician, he was a general surgeon who died of the novel coronavirus after volunteering to help Covid-19 patients

A general surgeon at New York hospitals for 24 years [....]

Dr. Webber died on April 18 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He was 67. The cause was complications of the new coronavirus, Ms. Clark Webber said.

Dr. Webber worked at Mount Sinai Queens as a surgeon, shuttling among patients, in the emergency room and the operating theater during the initial onslaught of Covid-19 admissions, she said. He had expressed fears of catching the virus from his duties.

“If it’s going to get anybody, it’s going to be me,” he said, according to Ms. Clark Webber. She said she was convinced that her husband caught the virus at the hospital, where doctors were required to wear protective face masks starting March 17, 10 days before Dr. Webber fell ill [....]

Avoidance is the only thing we have right now. If you're going to complain about people with unfair risk, it is essential workers who have that, just that simple. It's not about access to treatment options. They don't which treatments work! They don't understand the disease yet!  That's where the rich powerful sick have it just like the poor sick: once infected, it's a crap shoot.

In Peter Piot​'s story, another thing that stood out to me: he recounts how in hospital, he was afraid they might put him on a ventilator! Because he knew about it, that those on ventilators had a high death rate and no one is sure that it's helping more than hurting. That he was so grateful that powers-that-be decided he only needed oxygen. While at the same time explaining he was in no shape to even be involved in decisions about how he was being treated. This is one of the most famous virologists in the world! Just letting his fate up to whoever happened to be taking care of him behind those masks.

I lost a friend early on in the pandemic in NY. We in his circle have all heard he died on a ventilator in a pleasant small-ish hospital in the far north suburbs in NY near his home. All of us think he probably made a fatal mistake going there, just by virtue of that care team not knowing the latest on treatment protocols, which he would have had more access to at a busy public Queens hospital where all the poor people were being taken. Because: those teams, in those lousy crowded chaotic hosptials, would have been the ones learning the fastest about what treatments were working and what weren't.