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Could it be that they have one (if not the best) obesity rate in the world? I’m suspicious that this isn’t just countries with order of magnitude healthier pop
by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
Could it be that they have one (if not the best) obesity rate in the world?
I’m suspicious that this isn’t just countries with order of magnitude healthier populations (although maybe they have malnourishment the US doesn’t have).
- crispyambulance 6y agoThe USA and Vietnam have almost the same life-expectancy stats. I don't think one can say the difference in health is "an order of magnitude".
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoObesity in Vietnam is 1%...lowest in the world. Versus US with ~42%. We know the seriousness of obesity wrt covid.
- tome 6y agoSeems like this relationship would be very easy to discover in the worldwide statistics.
- rsynnott 6y agoIf this was the decisive factor, you'd expect Belgium, Italy and France to have low rates, with Germany, the UK, and most of Eastern Europe having high rates. This turns out not to be the case.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoMaybe not - but I'd guess that some combination of lack of chronic disease like obesity/diabetes on top of mask usage helped a lot. If the lack of chronic disease leads to less severe covid, you'd expect the nosocomial spread factor of the pandemic is lower.