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Former medical tsar claims obesity caused Britain to have highest coronavirus death toll in Europe – Yahoo New Zealand News
Professor Dame Sally Davies said death toll could have been reduced if the government had acted to stamp out obesity.
The UKs former chief medical officer has claimed that Britains high coronavirus death toll has been caused by a nationwide obesity problem.
Professor Dame Sally Davies said the figure, which reached 50,000 deaths earlier this week, could have been reduced if the government had acted to stamp out obesity.
She told Times Radio: You only have to look at our prime minister, who believes his weight was one of the reasons his episode of Covid was quite serious.
We know if we were slimmer as a nation,…
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