A new study from FAIR Health, in collaboration with the West Health Institute and Marty Makary, MD, MPH, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, shows the relationship between preexisting comorbidities of COVID-19 and mortality in privately insured patients. The study has been released as a white paper entitled Risk Factors for COVID-19 Mortality among Privately Insured Patients: A Claims Data Analysis. Across all age groups, the top 3 comorbidity risk factors for death from COVID-19 were, in order from highest to lowest risk, developmental disorders (eg, developmental disorders of speech and language, developmental disorders of scholastic skills, central auditory processing disorders); lung cancer; and intellectual disabilities and related conditions (eg, Down syndrome and other chromosomal anomalies; mild, moderate, severe and profound intellectual disabilities; and congenital malformations, such as certain disorders that cause microcephaly). As detailed in the white paper, these findings are supported by recent scientific literature.