[Puffer Fish]

“[Seventy-eight percent] of hospitalizations due to COVID are Obese and Overweight people. Is there an underlying problem that perhaps we have not given enough attention to?”

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2021/09/s ... nt-of.html

Hmm, most interesting.
Seems like these particular people may be having another problem which impairs their breathing.
Having wads of fat press down against your lungs certainly isn't going to help lung capacity when you have a respiratory virus.

I don't want to make fun of these people, but these are people who typically are already out of breath when they try to move faster than walking pace.

[AFAIK]

This is the worst shit post I've seen on Pofo. It's just a random blog.

If 50% of Americans are obese and 50% of American covid patients are obese then so what? That's perfectly proportional. You haven't even shown a correlation here, let alone causation.

[Puffer Fish]

If 50% of Americans are obese

Technically only 42.4% of Americans are obese.


Doing some quick calculations, that would make normal (non-fat) Americans 62% less likely to be hospitalised for Covid than the overall average that includes all Americans.

[Pants-of-dog]

Unvaccinated people are about 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than those who are fully vaccinated, according to a CDC study released Tuesday.
The new study also found that unvaccinated people were nearly five times more likely to be infected with Covid than vaccinated people.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/24/cdc-stu ... covid.html

It appears that vaccination status is far more important than obesity when fighting Covid.

[AFAIK]

Obese isn't a synonym for overweight. 42% obese + 36% overweight = 78%

[Igor Antunov]

Damn straight get that ass in gear. No matter how much you eat, get your body moving. You'd be surprised how quickly the kilos come off.

[Pants-of-dog]

Since 73.6% of the US population is overweight or obese, it seems that the relationship between weight and Covid seems insignificant.