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NYT: Americans Are Already Too Diseased [FAT] to Go Back to Work Right Now

 
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NYT: Americans Are Already Too Diseased [FAT] to Go Back to Work Right Now
The tl;dr of the article is that Americans are too fat to fight off the disease on their own. Being fat is also a huge risk factor (the same as being elderly), and sending everyone back into work will not flatten the curve.



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we should refocus our efforts on those most at risk for complications from coronavirus, the elderly and people with chronic disease, so that others can soon return to a semblance of normal life.

But this strategy is dangerously misguided for one simple reason: The huge burden of obesity and other chronic conditions among Americans puts most of us at direct risk. In fact, with obesity rates in the United States much higher than affected countries like South Korea and China, our outcomes — economic- and health-wise — could be much worse.
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Re: NYT: Americans Are Already Too Diseased [FAT] to Go Back to Work Right Now
Here's a medical doctor talking about how fat Americans will be what causes this disease to be so deadly in the US.

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Osterholm expressed worry that America's obesity rate could prove to be a deadly factor as the COVID-19 outbreak progresses in the coming weeks and months.
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"One of the ones that was relatively absent in China in the older population was obesity. We're beginning to see data out of New York where there's a number of cases in the 30, 40, and 50-year-old age group that are very severe. People are dying and requiring extensive intensive-care medicine requirements, and that is among those who are obese.
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In the United Kingdom, a recent study by the National Health Service’s Intensive Care National Audit and Research Center revealed that 127 of 196 COVID-19 patients who were in intensive care were overweight.
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Re: NYT: Americans Are Already Too Diseased [FAT] to Go Back to Work Right Now
I'm over eating my stash of preps as I read this communist propaganda.
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03/31/2020 06:34 AM
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Re: NYT: Americans Are Already Too Diseased [FAT] to Go Back to Work Right Now
I'm over eating my stash of preps as I read this communist propaganda.
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Re: NYT: Americans Are Already Too Diseased [FAT] to Go Back to Work Right Now
I'm over eating my stash of preps as I read this communist propaganda.
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You have enough shit tickets to pay that upcoming bill?
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Re: NYT: Americans Are Already Too Diseased [FAT] to Go Back to Work Right Now
I'm over eating my stash of preps as I read this communist propaganda.
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lmao
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