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by NoPie 1652 days ago
It could be true that obese have 4 times higher death rate. Note that obesity often comes together with diabetes and cardiovascular diseases which increase the risk even more.

Vaccines are effective, they reduce death rate approximately 10 times. It still seemed quite high that several EU countries have reintroduced restrictions despite good vaccination uptake.

Besides this is about long-term issues, not just covid or something we can fix in 1 or 2 years.