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That's interesting, why is that?

by StavrosK 5y ago

tokai 5y ago
Higher obesity in US maybe?
- StavrosK 5y ago
  I doubt the entire US became sharply more obese in the past year, though, so much so that it also died from it.
  - graywh 5y ago
    the US was already more obese than Germany -- and obesity seems to correlate with higher covid-19 mortality
  - alexilliamson 5y ago
    But the pandemic could have hit the more obese American population harder.
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  - awild 5y ago
    I'm assuming tokai is saying that because obese people are more likely to have complications from Covid19, the US saw a higher increase in excess deaths, given that the obesity rate is higher than eg Germany.
    - StavrosK 5y ago
      Oh, I see, I thought they meant that the excess deaths were caused by obesity, not by COVID19 leading to higher rates of death among the obese. That makes more sense.
    - HideousKojima 5y ago
      This also explains some of the racial disparities in COVID deaths since the obesity rate for blacks is 49.6% vs 44.8% for Hispanics, 42.2% for whites, and 17.4% for Asians
  - croon 5y ago
    The suggestion wasn't that they were dying from obesity, but from its correlation with covid. Not sure if it can account for the increase, but in conjunction with pretty terrible handling of the crisis during 2020 I could imagine it at least.
    - StavrosK 5y ago
      That makes sense, I misunderstood, thanks.
spamizbad 5y ago
Probably a combination of: - US letting it rip through vulnerable populations with the promise of "herd immunity" being right around the corner - Fewer hospital beds available in less populous areas. - Taking COVID seriously became a culture war issue. So while some countries might've had its youth catch it while mostly keeping it away from older populous, the US had the opposite: less vulnerable youth took it relatively seriously, with lots of 60+ flaunting safety measures they felt were oppressive
- postalrat 5y ago
  How does that explain Sweden? Or Germany. Or any of of the stats the person above you was replying to.
caddemon 5y ago
I'm not sure it's really a good comparison to pick a subset of European countries and compare them to the whole US. Some countries seem to have handled it better than others, which we could definitely learn from, but I don't think it is a US vs Europe problem like some other commenters seem to be implying. We could also compare Italy, Belgium, Hungary to Vermont.

That's interesting, why is that?

tokai 5y ago

Higher obesity in US maybe?

StavrosK 5y ago
I doubt the entire US became sharply more obese in the past year, though, so much so that it also died from it.
- graywh 5y ago
  the US was already more obese than Germany -- and obesity seems to correlate with higher covid-19 mortality
- alexilliamson 5y ago
  But the pandemic could have hit the more obese American population harder.
- deleted 5y ago
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- awild 5y ago
  I'm assuming tokai is saying that because obese people are more likely to have complications from Covid19, the US saw a higher increase in excess deaths, given that the obesity rate is higher than eg Germany.
  - StavrosK 5y ago
    Oh, I see, I thought they meant that the excess deaths were caused by obesity, not by COVID19 leading to higher rates of death among the obese. That makes more sense.
  - HideousKojima 5y ago
    This also explains some of the racial disparities in COVID deaths since the obesity rate for blacks is 49.6% vs 44.8% for Hispanics, 42.2% for whites, and 17.4% for Asians
- croon 5y ago
  The suggestion wasn't that they were dying from obesity, but from its correlation with covid. Not sure if it can account for the increase, but in conjunction with pretty terrible handling of the crisis during 2020 I could imagine it at least.
  - StavrosK 5y ago
    That makes sense, I misunderstood, thanks.

spamizbad 5y ago

Probably a combination of: - US letting it rip through vulnerable populations with the promise of "herd immunity" being right around the corner - Fewer hospital beds available in less populous areas. - Taking COVID seriously became a culture war issue. So while some countries might've had its youth catch it while mostly keeping it away from older populous, the US had the opposite: less vulnerable youth took it relatively seriously, with lots of 60+ flaunting safety measures they felt were oppressive

postalrat 5y ago
How does that explain Sweden? Or Germany. Or any of of the stats the person above you was replying to.

caddemon 5y ago

I'm not sure it's really a good comparison to pick a subset of European countries and compare them to the whole US. Some countries seem to have handled it better than others, which we could definitely learn from, but I don't think it is a US vs Europe problem like some other commenters seem to be implying. We could also compare Italy, Belgium, Hungary to Vermont.