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Tafkam Hokie

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Saw an interesting commentary a few months ago


a physician was dissecting CDC data for statistical trends. No social or political commentary here, just pure data analysis.

Specifically, he was looking at the risk factors most likely to lead to a Covid infection resulting in hospitalization or death.

The top two factors were obesity and diabetes (with complications). Interestingly, diabetes (without complications) was a statistical non-factor.

But the #3 factor that correlated with Covid being serious/deadly was a pre-existing anxiety disorder. He speculated that perhaps stress/anxiety may have a weakening effect on the body's immune system, but admitted that was speculation and not causation.

For my own social/political commentary...let me see if I got this straight: two of the three factors most likely to land you in the hospital or morgue with Covid are being overweight and anxiety. So our solution for fighting Covid early on was to close the gyms and scare the hell out of everyone. Got it.

(In response to this post by FfxStationHokie)

Posted: 01/03/2022 at 3:24PM



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