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Showing Original Post only (View all)Is weight a factor for severe Covid? It's not clear! [View all]
I think the answer is its maybe a slight factor. Weve all heard the stat by now that 78% of Covid hospitalization patients were obese or overweight. But what that leaves out is almost 72% of adult Americans are overweight or obese. 78% is almost within a reasonable margin for error. If it were 66% instead of 78%, no one would be saying being thin is an increased risk for severe Covid.
That number is misleading. 78 is not much greater than 72, researchers might dismiss a number like that altogether as not being a significant factor. But the media and the public has pounced on this as another way to blame people for getting severely sick from Covid when weight doesnt appear to be a large factor at all.
And did you know that if youre 5-10 and weigh 175 lbs as a man, youre considered overweight.
So articles like this are garbage. They dont give real interpretations of the data. Does t mean the obesity epidemic isnt a national health crisis, just means that dont be so quick to blame obesity for Covid sickness.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughly-78percent-of-people-hospitalized-were-overweight-or-obese.html?__twitter_impression=true