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Zenitram's avatar

But most certainly were: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughly-78percent-of-people-hospitalized-were-overweight-or-obese.html

When we get real with what obesity is, we can have this discussion.

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Sean Traven's avatar

That 78% is not much higher than the overall percentage of older Americans who are overweight or obese. Covid mostly affects over-50s and I think over 70% of them are overweight or obese.

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Zenitram's avatar

There is a 0% chance any virus hospitalizes fat fucks and diabetics at the same rate as the fit and healthy.

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Nobody's avatar

Make stuff up much? More like 40%.

https://hpi.georgetown.edu/obesity2/

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Nobody's avatar

Correction-- 40% are overweight. 24% obese. Still your number was off by 10%.

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