Obesity And Covid Death Rate Closely Linked In New Study

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Obesity And Covid Death Rate Closely Linked In New Study
Jemima McEvoy
Forbes
March 4, 2021

An analysis of Covid-19 mortality data by the World Obesity Federation released Thursday found a “dramatic correlation” between countries’ death and obesity rates, shedding new light on the role obesity has played in driving a global death toll of over 2.5 million.

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Through analysis of Johns Hopkins University virus mortality data and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) data on obesity, the World Obesity Federation—a non-profit associated with the WHO—calculated that 2.2 million of the pandemic’s 2.5 million global deaths were in countries with high levels of obesity.

The report found death rates were 10x higher in countries where more than 50% of the population is overweight, pointing to the U.K. and the U.S. as examples.

The U.K. has the third-highest death rate in the world (184 deaths per 100,000 population) and the fourth-highest obesity rate with 63.7% of adults classifying as overweight, closely followed by the U.S., which has 152.49 deaths per 100,000 and 67.9% of the population living with obesity.  ...

Story at Forbes

Link to "COVID-19 and Obesity: The 2021 Atlas," by World Obesity Federation.

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I think most of us non sheeple knew a long time ago if your BMI was under 28 or so and in good general health otherwise, you were gonna survive the "rona.

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World's most obese nations accounted for 90% of COVID-19 deaths
by Joel Abbott · Mar 5th, 2021 12:30 pm
Last Updated Mar 5th, 2021 at 1:32 pm

Countries where at least half of the adult population is overweight accounted for 90% of all 2.5 million global COVID-19 deaths, according to the World Obesity Federation.  The organization said the death rate is 10 times higher in these nations. The U.S. and U.K. alone, which both have high rates of obesity, account for over a quarter of all deaths.

Other nations at the top of the list included Belgium, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Italy. All of these countries have high obesity rates.

In comparison, countries with lower obesity rates such as Thailand, Burundi, and China have seen drastically lower death rates, although nations such as China have been criticized for drastically underreporting their cases. ...  More

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So Forbes is finally reporting on what the Trump White House released 11 months ago?

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