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The overweight block isn't much of a concern. The percentage of Americans in the overweight category hasn't changed since 1960 and there's little indication bei

The overweight block isn't much of a concern. The percentage of Americans in the overweight category hasn't changed since 1960 and there's little indication being overweight is nearly the danger that obesity is. It's almost exclusively the obesity group - which has exploded higher since the early 1980s - that is the concern. If you're 6ft (183cm) tall, you can be 185-220 pounds (~84-100kg) and you fall into the overweight group. That group has very little to fear from Covid due to weight, unless they have other serious health conditions. Being 10 or 15 pounds overweight isn't going to be a meaningful problem when dealing with Covid. If you're 80 or 100 pounds overweight - obese - that is going to be a major risk factor. The number of people killed just by Covid in the US in the overweight group, under the age of 75, is likely to be numbered sub 1,000.

acituan 6y ago
> That group has very little to fear from Covid due to weight, unless they have other serious health conditions. Being 10 or 15 pounds overweight isn't going to be a meaningful problem when dealing with Covid. If you're 80 or 100 pounds overweight - obese - that is going to be a major risk factor. Unless you have data on this, or an understanding of the mechanism of how weight and covid exactly interacts, this is mere speculation. It wasn’t intuitive to a lot of people that BMI would be a risk factor to begin with when first covid came up. We also don’t know if the interaction is linear or quadratic or a simple cutoff. I am not saying you are necessarily wrong, but I don’t think we have the basis for such confidence on these conclusions yet.