More than half are not obese. Conclude that it is safer to be obese?
Half the people today are obese. So if half the flu cases are in obese people, so what?
And I’ll bet that more than half had hair.
Gotta love statistics.
Swine flu attacks the obese? Fe-ic!
Good to know this extra piece of cake will help ward off the flu.
Sauerkraut cake, yum! Don’t knock it until you try it.
Couldn’t this simply indicate that more and more Americans are obese?
We might also be able to come up with data suggesting that more and more Americans getting haircuts are obese.
and since at least half the American population (adults) are obese, it makes sense that half the flu cases are obese people....
I'll make a bold statement...I'll bet well over half the flu cases vote democrat all the time....
How many have had flu shots? I will bet most have had them.
Somewhere, somebody attributes his continued health to never wearing socks or underwear. “I never get sick!”. What this guy saves on medication he gets to pay in weekly dry cleaning bills, so there’s that.
The hospital will not admit you because you have the flu. You get admitted because you are presenting with acute symptoms of something worthy of admission - like pneumonia.
Pulmonary concerns are generally what gets the obese flu patient admitted, along with cardiological risks compounded.
and we know obese people are the result of global warming....
‘cept there was no global pandemic in 2009 and 2010
Conclusion in search of facts. FAIL.
Since half the nation (including myself) is obese why is this newsworthy???
“Nearly Half Hospitalized for Flu Are Obese”
That means this headline is also true:
“Less than Half Hospitalized for Flu Are Obese.”
global pandemic...?
Wow...a pandemic ?
I missed that one...I must have been asleep...
A statistic without context.
What percentage of the population at large is obese? How does that percentage compare to the percentage with the flu?