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Higher obesity in US maybe?

• StavrosK 6y 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 6y ago
    the US was already more obese than Germany -- and obesity seems to correlate with higher covid-19 mortality
  • alexilliamson 6y ago
    But the pandemic could have hit the more obese American population harder.
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  • awild 6y 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 6y 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 6y 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 6y 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 6y ago
      That makes sense, I misunderstood, thanks.