A new study has concluded that being fat is the biggest factor in coronavirus hospitalizations.
For months, scientists have been poring over data about cases and deaths to understand why it is that COVID-19 manifests itself in different ways around the globe, with certain factors such as the age of the population repeatedly popping up as among the most significant determinants.
Now, one of the largest studies conducted of COVID-19 infection in the US has found that obesity of patients was the single biggest factor, after age, in whether those with COVID-19 had to be admitted to a hospital.
“The chronic condition with the strongest association with critical illness was obesity, with a substantially higher odds ratio than any cardiovascular or pulmonary disease,” write lead author Christopher M. Petrilli of the NYU Grossman School and colleagues in a paper, “Factors associated with hospitalization and critical illness among 4,103 patients with COVID-19 disease in New York City,” which was posted April 11 on the medRxiv pre-print server.
Do people still actually think it was worth closing down the economy over this?
All to save a small handful of fat people?
I personally do not believe it was worth it. If the coronavirus wasn’t a thing, these fat pieces of shit would have died from something else.
