New report highlights link between obesity and COVID-19 deaths

There is a stark link between obesity and COVID-19 deaths, according to new research. The report, by the World Obesity Federation, shows excess weight is second only to age as factors in the death toll.
Almost 90 percent of deaths from COVID-19 are from countries with high rates of obesity. That is nearly 2.2 million out of about 2.5 million dead.
It shows mortality rates are 10 times higher where at least 50 percent of the population is overweight.
That includes the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
On the other end of the scale, it shows no single country where less than 40 percent of the population was overweight has a high death rate.
Johanna Ralston, the chief executive of the World Obesity Federation, talks to Al Jazeera.

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[lashlarue]

😂😂 ok, mandatory thumbs up for the ongoing montage of fat bodies stumbling down the street next to McDonald’s signs.. 😂😂

[bammendo]

Yet i dont hear no mandates on staying healthy mr brandon

[ixsupaneat]

This doesnt sound like a suprise to me

[TheCelestialvision]

Can just hear Ricky Gervais: It’s not a disease

[TCGTV]

That’s exactly what happened with my dad last month when he passed away due to covid.

[nastaran]

They are not just in danger from covid, diabetes, heart health, arthritis, back pain...so many other diseases are

[お握り-zx]

Not surprising, I have a feeling that a lot of people in Asian countries have already got immunity already.

[abdurraquib]

*Not any alternative way of awareness yet for safety!* 👍👍👍

[devendranaruna]

there is a world Obesity federation, the rates are going up.
what is their role, to increase Obesity rates? sigh

[OnesFan]

I got covid as a vegan and I didn't have any symptoms. Even I am a little fat.

[Tristarh]

Hah, this news did prove Covid-19 was originated from USA

[naurasal]

Cheese, sausage, bacon, hamburger, mayonnaise, excess sugars, etc are main diet of the West.
They can cause an obesity and excess inflammation in our body.
Most Asian people don't or rarely eat these foods.

[lakecountynaturalist]

Look again. I'm overweight, have two jobs that put me in contact with people in close proximity and I am fine. I been doing this since the crisis began a year ago and spent many months with no protective gear at all. Just went for a physical and passed it. Doc just said to lose weight. No diabetes, no high blood pressure...nothing.