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Originally Posted by Swoop
How about the statement from the CDC that says if you are obese, you are 3X more likely to be hospitalized with Covid?
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That statement is not proven by an article that shows the demographics of patients matches the demographics of the US population.
Perhaps the article was poorly written. Perhaps the statistics were bad. Perhaps any number of things. As I wrote previously, it is not my intention to make a claim about the risk of covid, only that the numbers presented do not appear to support the assertion that weight is a significant factor. It might be, but that can't be seen from these numbers.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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