Health
If obese are more at risk of COVID death, QLD is screwed – Observer
With obesity confirmed as a major driver of COVID-19 deaths overseas, Queenslanders should be alarmed, writes data expert Dan Petrie.
Have you heard the one about the guy who thought he had COVID because he couldn’t breathe?
Then he unbuttoned his pants and he was all good.
COVID kilos and Quarantine-15 (in reference to pounds gained in lockdown) are easy to joke about when we’re stuck at home binge eating on the couch.
But it is also the bulging elephant (pardon the pun) in the room when it comes to COVID-19’s death rate.
Being obese can include an increased risk of clots in the lungs, diaphragms constricted from belly fat making…
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