Which is why you can’t compare outcomes in places like Sweden and SK with what they will be in the CONUS.
Sweden has essentially adopted keto as a healthy diet. SK doesn’t have the number of obese we do either.
So the hospitalization rate, death rate and negative outcome rates of those two countries have literally nothing to do with what will happen in CONUS.
There are a LOT of flubros who harp ‘pre-existing conditions’ to unexpected young dead from this...and don’t realize that simply having elevated fasting insulin is probably the real culprit. Everything goes downhill from there. And there are a LOT of flubros who have elevated fasting insulin levels. And A1C over 5.5ish. If you’re over 40 with more than 15lbs extra and/or elevated A1C (over 5.5ish), you’re asking for trouble if you catch this.
I agree, and it’s even hard to compare different cities within the US. In my county here in GA, I see very few overweight people. There are a lot of people on Keto here. We have 187 cases, 7 deaths but no one under the age of 70. But some of these rural counties? Goodness, it’s scary how many obese people you see, and in some of those counties they have younger people dying.
I chalk it up to the health makeup of the population, or the different strains of the illness.
Either way, if it can do the kind of damage in these Asian countries who (I think?) have better diets than us, imagine the damage here left unchecked.
Adding to my last post, you also have the skinny-fat people - my husband’s elderly dad is 140 lbs soaking wet, but his blood sugar is very high. Not good.