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In reply to the discussion: Is weight a factor for severe Covid? It's not clear! [View all]Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)Even looking at the research posters provided, heck, one of the says 41% of serious Covid patients were obese and therefore obesity is a comorbidity. Wait a second, 41%? Well 42% of the US population is obese, so what gives?
Here's what people are doing, they're painting with too broad a brush, they're acting like the majority of people who are hospitalized are morbidly obese, they aren't, they aren't even obese, the majority are either underweight, normal weight, or overweight but not obese. Just like the population of the United States.
It's an effort to downplay Covid as "mostly" affecting people who brought the severity on themselves by being so "fat." Well that's not the reality. The reality is this is affecting everyone, and obesity isn't the single biggest factor on severity. The 78% number is totally misleading since the article did not mention that 72% of the country are obese or overweight.
And that's the catch, I bet you3 out of 4 of the overweight people don't even know they are considered overweight.