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Originally Posted by MahomesMagic

Nearly 80% hospitalized for COVID-19 were overweight or obese

About 78% of people who were hospitalized, placed on a ventilator or died from COVID-19 were overweight or obese, a new report from the CDC shows.

Why it matters: The findings show risk of severe COVID-19 illness rises sharply with elevated body mass index, especially for people younger than 65.

https://news.yahoo.com/nearly-80-hos...103021665.html


And this:

Study: In U.S., Lockdowns Added 2 Pounds per Month

March 23, 2021 -- Americans gained nearly 2 pounds per month under COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders in 2020, according to a new study published Monday in JAMA Network Open.

Those who kept the same lockdown habits could have gained 20 pounds during the past year, the study authors said.

“We know that weight gain is a public health problem in the U.S. already, so anything making it worse is definitely concerning, and shelter-in-place orders are so ubiquitous that the sheer number of people affected by this makes it extremely relevant,” Gregory Marcus, MD, the senior author and a cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, told The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/h...ight-gain.html

That's fairly significant, considering that the the majority of the US population is overweight.