@raphjd said in "Healthy at any size" vs C-19:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/04/health/obesity-covid-death-rate-intl/index.html
Despite what we've been told for the last 15 years, being obese is not healthy.
While age is the main factor in hospitalizations for C-19, being overweight is a very close 2nd.
Thanks for the link. The story is a bit sloppy: The actual study linked COVID death rates with countries' overweight percentages, but then the article soon dwells on obesity. Being overweight and being obese refer to two different ranges of body mass index. The news piece doesn't make that clear.
Also, it would be helpful to find the actual source data. While there very well could be a connection between COVID severity and being overweight, the data is likely to be skewed given than 20% of the COVID deaths are from the US: While that country does have an overweight problem, it also had a terrible public health program (or lack of one), and that's going to affect that outcome of this kind of study.