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by smbullet 1865 days ago
America has an enormous obesity problem which contributes to a significant number of Covid fatalities. When we tell Americans to get healthy it's mostly targeted towards those people.
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The rhetoric around “health” seems a lot broader than that.
I agree with you entirely that there's an obesity problem. When it comes to covid deaths, though, the CDC report this week says that the vast majority--about 46%--are coinfections with flu.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm

https://i.ibb.co/zscjxb6/Screenshot-2021-05-13-23-04-11.png

Interesting. I followed your references and they say that the 46% comorbidity is "Influenza or Pneumonia". Covid is a cause of pneumonia (=infection of lungs), so your statement "46% are coinfections with flu" seems misleading to me.
Flu also causes pneumonia, and they're listed together, so they're talking about flu and flu-related pneumonia.

Everything in these numbers is connected to covid. That's the point.

It's not my statement. You don't have to jump through hoops to indict me for linking.

Not flu alone, but flu or pneumonia.

What's the significance of this?