Covid-19 death rates 10 times higher in countries where adults are overweight
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#2Feels good to be saying the same thing for a year and finally get validated. Death rates have nothing to do with countries having a better response, better lockdowns, better mask wearing. It's literally who has the fattest people. The US is one of them. Asian countries not so much.
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#3Knowing this will we create incentives for more grocery stores to exist in food deserts? Probably not. From what I've read that will have more of a positive public health impact than most initiatives.
Re: Covid-19 death rates 10 times higher in countries where adults are overweight
#4Feels good to be saying the same thing for a year and finally get validated. Death rates have nothing to do with countries having a better response, better lockdowns, better mask wearing. It's literally who has the fattest people. The US is one of them. Asian countries not so much.
Did they control for other factors, like (for instance) legal over-the-counter hydroxychloroquine, like (for instance) Vietnam and Laos have?
Re: Covid-19 death rates 10 times higher in countries where adults are overweight
#5Feels good to be saying the same thing for a year and finally get validated. Death rates have nothing to do with countries having a better response, better lockdowns, better mask wearing. It's literally who has the fattest people. The US is one of them. Asian countries not so much.
Did they control for other factors, like (for instance) legal over-the-counter hydroxychloroquine, like (for instance) Vietnam and Laos have?
Why would you control for something that has no impact?
Re: Covid-19 death rates 10 times higher in countries where adults are overweight
#6Feels good to be saying the same thing for a year and finally get validated. Death rates have nothing to do with countries having a better response, better lockdowns, better mask wearing. It's literally who has the fattest people. The US is one of them. Asian countries not so much.
it feels good? ...You cant with a straight face say that New Zealands low number are to do with people being less fat and nothing to do with the NZGOVs solid response to the pandemic!!! .. I mean, I guess you can try..
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#7I wonder if they are real.
Re: Covid-19 death rates 10 times higher in countries where adults are overweight
#8Feels good to be saying the same thing for a year and finally get validated. Death rates have nothing to do with countries having a better response, better lockdowns, better mask wearing. It's literally who has the fattest people. The US is one of them. Asian countries not so much.
Did they control for other factors, like (for instance) legal over-the-counter hydroxychloroquine, like (for instance) Vietnam and Laos have?
Vietnam is full of skinny people therefore they were not hit hard. Although they have an obesity problem on the rise. This is a pandemic 30 years in the making. If we just addressed the obesity problem this wouldn't even be worse than the flu. I've been saying for the past year, if this hit in the 60's/70's it wouldn't have done anything.
Re: Covid-19 death rates 10 times higher in countries where adults are overweight
#9Feels good to be saying the same thing for a year and finally get validated. Death rates have nothing to do with countries having a better response, better lockdowns, better mask wearing. It's literally who has the fattest people. The US is one of them. Asian countries not so much.
> It's literally who has the fattest people.
This does not explain Australia, which has an obesity rate quite close to the US.
Re: Covid-19 death rates 10 times higher in countries where adults are overweight
#10Feels good to be saying the same thing for a year and finally get validated. Death rates have nothing to do with countries having a better response, better lockdowns, better mask wearing. It's literally who has the fattest people. The US is one of them. Asian countries not so much.
You are comparing two different things. Lockdowns, mask wearing, and other mitigations seek to drive down the number of infections. The death rate (IFR/CFR) is the relationship between the number of infections and the number of fatalities, so no one should expect lockdowns to change the death rate (up until health care runs out of beds/staff).