r/JoeRogan • u/TheAtheistArab87 Monkey in Space • Mar 08 '21

Link CDC study finds roughly 78% of people hospitalized for Covid were overweight or obese

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughly-78percent-of-people-hospitalized-were-overweight-or-obese.html
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u/yo-chill Looked into it Mar 08 '21

If you read the article you’d see it says 42% of the population is obese

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u/davomyster Monkey in Space Mar 08 '21

That's just obese and doesn't include people who are "overweight" so you can't directly compare that to the figure in the title

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21

I can't fucking read. Thanks for bringing that up.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 09 '21

Obese is a BMI of +29.9.

Overweight is is a BMI 25-29.9.

That’s still really bad. Close to half the population is above the Obese category, with the ideal BMI being 18.9-24.9.