The article is extremely poor. For example, their evidence for why obesity should be rated higher is that obese people are more likely to be hospitalized for C

The article is extremely poor. For example, their evidence for why obesity should be rated higher is that obese people are more likely to be hospitalized for COVID. Which says absolutely nothing about whether they are at greater risk of adverse outcomes once they have been hospitalized or whether the treatments work better for obese people. They also try to appear clever by invoking “correlation is not causation” but I’m the absence of information about causation, correlation is what medical and health boards have to depend on. Finally the ultimate giveaway about how this isn’t a “wokeness” or “progressive” issue at all is the list of states. Missouri, Utah, Wisconsin are hardly “woke” or “liberal” states. Minnesota or Illinois come close, but are still deeply purple. And only NY is a true blue state. So what’s the explanation for progressive wokeness infecting a whole spectrum of states, including decidedly non blue states like Utah and Missouri?