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Actually most people with COVID needing extra healthcare are obese: https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-items/2021/patients-who-are-obese-or-overweight-are-at-ris
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Actually most people with COVID needing extra healthcare are obese: https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-items/2021/patients-who-are-obese-or-overweight-are-at-risk-for-a-more-severe-course-of-covid-19 https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-items/2021/patients-who-ar...
Also from March 2020: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/03/coronavirus-death-toll-rises-obese-corona-patients-dominate-in-intensive-care/ https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/03/coronavirus-death-toll...
> Meanwhile, Diederik Gommers, chairman of the Dutch intensive care association, told television talk show Jinek on Friday evening that 66% to 80% of corona patients on intensive care wards that he had seen are overweight.
> A specialist on the programme gave a similar picture. ‘Almost all the patients on an IC ward are overweight,’ Peter van der Voort of Groningen University’s teaching hospital said.