Covid-19: Highest death rates seen in countries with most overweight populations

Re:Covid-19: Highest death rates seen in countries with most... by cm2187 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @12:31PM (#26926147)

Countries with an overweight population tend to be also countries with an ageing population and given how dominant is how you protected your elderly in the death rates, not sure the correlation means causation. The ICU doctors interviews I have seen suggest overweight people go to ICU but generally do not die unless it is combined with age or serious com-morbidity.

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Re:Covid-19: Highest death rates seen in countries with most... by alamortsubite on Saturday April 24, 2021 @12:45PM (#26926258)

This does seem likely, but the paper claims to have taken it into consideration:

The authors acknowledged that the age structure of a country, as well as its relative wealth and reporting capacity, has an impact on covid-19 cases, hospital admissions, and deaths, but said that their findings seem to be independent of these contributory factors.

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Re:Covid-19: Highest death rates seen in countries with most... by rkk3 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @12:57PM (#26926371)

The US has the highest death rate and is #36th (16%) for Aging Population (% 65+).

The UK has the third highest death rate and is #24th (18.3%) for Aging Population (% 65+).

https://www.prb.org/countries-with-the-oldest-populations/

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Re:Covid-19: Highest death rates seen in countries with most... by cm2187 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @01:08PM (#26926480)

But it’s also a function of how well you protected your elderly

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