[VLM]

That link is just a list of states ordered by obesity.

"Lifestyle effects" of age and obesity have an overwhelming effect on covid mortality, far beyond the smaller effect of vax.

It would be interesting to see the data corrected for bodyweight. Certainly if I moved from CO to MS it would alter the state stats for both obesity and covid outcomes, but have zero effect on my personal outcome, so a list of states ordered by obesity is not an actionable item WRT making personal medical choices.

[turtledove]

Unbelievable. Parent poster said "least vaccines; best outcomes", the data literally disagrees with that analysis.

Then you are like, "well, I don't like that data, so I'm going to ignore Occam's Razer."

My dude, that's not "just" a list of states ordered by obesity. It's a list of states ordered by how much they masked and vaccinated.

You are attempting to ignore the most obvious correlation (masks and vaccines impact viral transmission rates).