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It's definitely a trend that states with higher rates of obesity and hypertension have higher death rates. But since those are known comorbidities, not particul

• Retric 4y ago
  Mississippi and WV had obesity rates of 39.5% in 2018, yet Mississippi was 476 where WV was 364 so something else is going on. Especially when you consider Delaware’s 33.5% obesity in 2018 somehow only resulted in 289. Turns out states with stronger responses had better results independent of what population density and demographics would suggest.
  • Rebelgecko 4y ago
    I definitely don't think that's the only factor and the correlation isn't 1:1 so you can't necessarily cherry pick 3 states and say the trend doesn't exist (but if you do want to cherry pick states, I'd point out that of the states that took a laxer approach to covid, Utah has the lowest obesity rate. They also have a much lower population-adjusted death rate than states like California that took more aggressive measures to flatten the curve over 1-2 years)