Does obesity play a role on whether Covid-19 infected individuals have poorer outcomes, or not? Has the CDC or anybody released any guidance on this? What are the statistics?
Perhaps her words could have been chosen more artfully, and she should have been more careful in this brave new world of Year Zero pseudo-science and quackery that is also infecting everyone.
According to the CDC it does
Well any respiratory illness or breathing issue is certainly going to make matters worse if they get covid. Obese individuals always have underlying medical issues and breathing issues as well....those can go undetected until they get cover or some issue where tests are done etc.
Obesity is the worst comorbidity. Some interesting findings in that study. Table 2 (page 11) Some things I thought were risk factors apparently aren’t, and some things I wouldn’t have thought to be risk factors apparently are.
https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/pdf/21_0123.pdf
“Results
Among 4,899,447 hospitalized adults in PHD-SR, 540,667 (11.0%) were patients with COVID-19, of whom 94.9% had at least 1 underlying medical condition. Essential hypertension (50.4%), disorders of lipid metabolism (49.4%), and obesity (33.0%) were the most common. The strongest risk factors for death were obesity (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] = 1.30; 95% CI, 1.27–1.33), anxiety and fear-related disorders (aRR = 1.28; 95% CI, 1.25–1.31), and diabetes with complication (aRR = 1.26; 95% CI, 1.24–1.28), as well as the total number of conditions, with aRRs of death ranging from 1.53 (95% CI, 1.41–1.67) for patients with 1 condition to 3.82 (95% CI, 3.45–4.23) for patients with more than 10 conditions (compared with patients with no condi- tions).
Conclusion
Certain underlying conditions and the number of conditions were associated with severe COVID-19 illness. Hypertension and dis- orders of lipid metabolism were the most frequent, whereas obesity, diabetes with complication, and anxiety disorders were the strongest risk factors for severe COVID-19 illness. Careful evaluation and management of underlying conditions among pa- tients with COVID-19 can help stratify risk for severe illness.”