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They're blaming COVID 19, but a very strong co-factor here is obesity.
by fortran77 4y ago
They're blaming COVID 19, but a very strong co-factor here is obesity.
- tenpies 4y agoFrom a resource perspective, it's fascinating how much money was incinerated on COVID. Just in legislative health spending, and in spending by the Exectuive you're talking $1.2 TT dollars spent (with much more still allocated)[1]. Imagine if just 1% of that went towards cardiovascular health. We could have seriously moved the needle on the cause of diseases that consistently kills orders of magnitude more people. And sure, COVID had three months when it was the leading cause of death[2]. But just heart disease, kills nearly as many people every month. --- [1] https://www.covidmoneytracker.org https://www.covidmoneytracker.org [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254560/leading-causes-of-death-in-the-us-average-number-daily/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254560/leading-causes-o...