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"“Excess weight is a modifiable risk factor, and investment in the treatment of overweight and obesity and long-term preventive strategies could help reduce the severity of Covid-19 disease,” they wrote. " "The research adds to a growing list of scientific literature pointing to a correlation between weight and likelihood of severe Covid-19. A study published last year in Nature found that obesity significantly increased the risk of coronavirus-linked death. People with a BMI over 40 were at 92% higher risk of dying from the virus compared with people with a healthy BMI between 18.5-25." A few more highlights.

"Among 71,491 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (48.1% of all COVID-19 patients), 34,896 (48.8%) required ICU admission, 9,525 (13.3%) required invasive mechanical ventilation, and 8,348 (11.7%) died. Approximately 1.8% of patients had underweight, 28.3% had overweight, and 50.8% had obesity." So 79% of hospital patients were overweight. And the ARR you provided just reflects severely obese patient mortality. Its significantly higher for higher BMI's in every category, include nearly doubling the risk of being put on a ventilator. And, to your 65 and older comments-also from the study you posted: "Consistent with previous studies, the dose-response relationship between risk for hospitalization or death and higher BMI was particularly pronounced among patients aged <65 years (1,2). However, in contrast to previous studies that demonstrated little or no association between obesity and COVID-19 severity among older patients (1,2), the results in this report indicate that overweight and obesity are risk factors for invasive mechanical ventilation and that obesity or severe obesity are risk factors for hospitalization, ICU admission, and death among patients aged ≥65 years. A sensitivity analysis adjusting for other underlying medical conditions found weaker associations between BMI and severe COVID-19–associated illness, which might be partially attributable to indirect effects of obesity on COVID-19 or overadjustment by including intermediate variables on the causal pathway from exposure (i.e., BMI) to outcome." And finally: "These findings highlight the clinical and public health implications of higher BMIs, including the need for intensive COVID-19 illness management as obesity severity increases, promotion of COVID-19 prevention strategies including continued vaccine prioritization (6) and masking, and policies to ensure community access to nutrition and physical activities that promote and support a healthy BMI."

Obesity is the largest co-morbidity of Covid. Obesity triples your likelihood of being hospitalized from coved. You cant control age, you can control obesity. Vaccines prevent covid, they don't cure fatness.

Sorry for the cheap shot, it was wrong of me. Posts edited.

Cool. Being overweight increases your chances of mortality for literally every leading cause of death. None of which the Covid vaccine is protectionary for. So yes, it is a bandaid in the sense that it will prevent Covid from killing you, but it will not prevent you from dying from the primary covid co mordbidity. So full of shit.

If thats the only qualification you can add the the long list of hundreds of other pandemics ongoing in the country. There is undeniably a certain type of person who has enjoyed the side effects and shifts in cultural dynamics the pandemic has caused. There is also an undeniable sentiment every time it gets brought up thats its silly to expect people to get in shape.

"carrying excess bodyfat is unhealthy and a tax on the healthcare system and everyone who is overweight (with no exceptions) should lose weight isn't a political view, its a scientific one"

It’s not continuing. The pandemics over.

Like too much food and not enough exercise?

You're wrong here and overgeneralizing a demographic that you disagree with politically.

Why don’t you argue against what I’m saying instead of what you think I’m saying. Overweight people are one of the primary reasons (the foremost reason, actually) this pandemic was so impactful in the first place.

It’s not. You’re missing the point completely, actually. I think at this point anybody who isn’t vaccinated is probably screaming for things to get back to normal faster than anyone. On the bright side, the pandemics pretty much done with as far as my little world is concerned. Feels good.

You’re talking about something that would have made the pandemic orders of magnitude less consequential- the pandemic cost us hundreds of thousands of lives it didn’t need to, and we won’t really know the economic implications of the policies we’ve executed for the next few years and even decades. And in the end, the vaccine might as well be a band aid for a lot of people in our country. And they will continue to slap more and more band aids on until there’s one that doesn’t work and being fat will still kill them in the end.

Today has been a spectacular weather day in central Indiana.

May be an over generalization but I don’t think most the people who aren’t getting the vaccine support restrictions. That’s not true in reverse.

I think this is a good and valid argument here. But it’s also frustrating for people that do take care of themselves that their lives have been so impacted primarily (decisive word, I know) for those who don’t.

Shows what I know about Chicago!

I’m very surprised the last couple hours of rain only added up to .25 ETA: looks like that was only through 6:51? Guess we will see where it shakes out!

Don’t think this aged well

Could be an ugly look if that boundary gets pushed all the way down into the Tulsa area.

Very similar here. Huge drop over the weekend.

About 50/50 at the grocery store today

I think there’s a real argument here that for a lot of people the second shot might not be worth the side effects if almost 97 percent have antibodies after the first shot