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Originally Posted by Swoop
Bill, are you really having trouble comprehending? If you are OBESE you are 3X more likely to be hospitalized with Covid.
You are 3X more likely than anyone who is NOT obese to be hospitalized.
If you are OBESE your chances of being hospitalized with Covid TRIPLES.
So if you use the CDC’s numbers, 69% of Covid hospitalizations are people who were OBESE.
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And the CDC number from the article was 78% of hospitalizations were overweight or obese. Since 69% are obese then only 9% of the hospitalizations were simply overweight. But about 30% - 35% of the US population is overweight so it follows that you are LESS likely to be hospitalized if you are overweight.
But that doesn't make sense, does it?
So there is something wrong with the numbers, and probably the numbers in the survey.
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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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