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She adjusts for age, but why not also obesity, which is known to make COVID worse [1]? Eyeballing it, differences in obesity rates [2] seem like a perfect match for the differences in death rate she reports. Her analysis is just another instance of "apply statistics until you get white privilege, then immediately stop"

[1] Having obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to a COVID-19 infection. - https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/207436/overweight-and-ob...




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