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>Covid is very deadly right now, it is the leading cause of death in several countries, including the US. This is misinformation. Heart disease is the leading

>Covid is very deadly right now, it is the leading cause of death in several countries, including the US. This is misinformation. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US, killing around 650,000 americans each year[1]. Also note that heart disease and obesity are extreme risk factors for negative health outcomes from covid, leading to potentially 3x the risk of hospitalization.[2] Populations suffering from prexisting obesity epidemics, such as America and Europe, have had far worse health outcomes from covid than Asia and Africa, which have no obesity epidemic.[3][4] >If you catch covid, it roughly doubles your chances of dying for the year Do you have a source for this? I'm assuming this is not true for young and/or healthy people. [1]https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm [2]https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html [3]https://ncdrisc.org/obesity-prevalence-map.html https://ncdrisc.org/obesity-prevalence-map.html [4]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Mortality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Mor...

GuB-42 6y ago
The thing with covid is the younger/healthier you are, the less likely you are to die from it, but you are also less likely to die from anything. So the relative risk does not change much. In Africa, the population is much younger than in the US and life expectancy is lower. People die from other causes like malaria, malnutrition, violence, etc... much more often than in the US, so mechanically, the relative risk of dying from covid is lower. In rich Asian countries like Japan, I haven't heard of a significant difference in infection fatality rate compared to western countries. They have less deaths overall because they have less cases, certainly because they manage the pandemic better. In poor Asian countries, it is essentially like Africa. As for obesity, it is actually worse in northern Africa than in Europe, and closer to the US. And southeast Asia is getting close to Europe as these countries develop.
- loveistheanswer 6y ago
  >The thing with covid is the younger/healthier you are, the less likely you are to die from it, but you are also less likely to die from anything. So the relative risk does not change much. Exactly my point. Covid is a negligible risk to young healthy people compared to elderly, sick, obese people. This will have an effect on their risk calculations determining if they should take a vaccine which was rushed through safety trials or to take on a virus naturally which their immune systems can easily defeat, according to the data. >In rich Asian countries like Japan, I haven't heard of a significant difference in infection fatality rate compared to western countries. If you look at the data, you'll see the significant difference. The US has 139.30 deaths per 100,000 people from covid. Japan has 4.88 deaths per 100,000.[1] >As for obesity, it is actually worse in northern Africa than in Europe, and closer to the US. And southeast Asia is getting close to Europe as these countries develop. Indeed, if you look at the obesity map and the covid map of the world, you'll see the same correlation of obesity and larger relative covid risk in northern Africa. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_by_country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rate...

GuB-42 6y ago

The thing with covid is the younger/healthier you are, the less likely you are to die from it, but you are also less likely to die from anything. So the relative risk does not change much. In Africa, the population is much younger than in the US and life expectancy is lower. People die from other causes like malaria, malnutrition, violence, etc... much more often than in the US, so mechanically, the relative risk of dying from covid is lower. In rich Asian countries like Japan, I haven't heard of a significant difference in infection fatality rate compared to western countries. They have less deaths overall because they have less cases, certainly because they manage the pandemic better. In poor Asian countries, it is essentially like Africa. As for obesity, it is actually worse in northern Africa than in Europe, and closer to the US. And southeast Asia is getting close to Europe as these countries develop.

loveistheanswer 6y ago
>The thing with covid is the younger/healthier you are, the less likely you are to die from it, but you are also less likely to die from anything. So the relative risk does not change much. Exactly my point. Covid is a negligible risk to young healthy people compared to elderly, sick, obese people. This will have an effect on their risk calculations determining if they should take a vaccine which was rushed through safety trials or to take on a virus naturally which their immune systems can easily defeat, according to the data. >In rich Asian countries like Japan, I haven't heard of a significant difference in infection fatality rate compared to western countries. If you look at the data, you'll see the significant difference. The US has 139.30 deaths per 100,000 people from covid. Japan has 4.88 deaths per 100,000.[1] >As for obesity, it is actually worse in northern Africa than in Europe, and closer to the US. And southeast Asia is getting close to Europe as these countries develop. Indeed, if you look at the obesity map and the covid map of the world, you'll see the same correlation of obesity and larger relative covid risk in northern Africa. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_by_country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rate...