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America has an enormous obesity problem which contributes to a significant number of Covid fatalities. When we tell Americans to get healthy it's mostly targete

America has an enormous obesity problem which contributes to a significant number of Covid fatalities. When we tell Americans to get healthy it's mostly targeted towards those people.

ibejoeb 5y ago
I agree with you entirely that there's an obesity problem. When it comes to covid deaths, though, the CDC report this week says that the vast majority--about 46%--are coinfections with flu. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm https://i.ibb.co/zscjxb6/Screenshot-2021-05-13-23-04-11.png https://i.ibb.co/zscjxb6/Screenshot-2021-05-13-23-04-11.png
- epistasis 5y ago
  Not flu alone, but flu or pneumonia. What's the significance of this?
- williamstein 5y ago
  Interesting. I followed your references and they say that the 46% comorbidity is "Influenza or Pneumonia". Covid is a cause of pneumonia (=infection of lungs), so your statement "46% are coinfections with flu" seems misleading to me.
  - ibejoeb 5y ago
    Flu also causes pneumonia, and they're listed together, so they're talking about flu and flu-related pneumonia. Everything in these numbers is connected to covid. That's the point. It's not my statement. You don't have to jump through hoops to indict me for linking.
rayiner 5y ago
The rhetoric around “health” seems a lot broader than that.