CDC: 61% of Teenagers Hospitalized for COVID-19 Had Severe Obesity

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[–]jet199[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

900 out of millions is still quite low.

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true, I mean the 61% seems a low percentage, but out of a low sample size anyway. Really people dying of it are all either old or fat, usually both.

[–]jet199[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Apparently only 18% of Americans are severely obese and that would be less for kids.

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sevrely is one thing but even being regular obese is terrible