COVID-19 & OBESITY: THE ELEPHANT IS STILL IN THE ROOM

While President Biden insists the vaccines are going to save the day from the terror of COVID-19 (see our new article, “PRESIDENT BIDEN: MASKS & VACCINES LEAD TO ‘NORMAL LIVING’”), he and the mainstream press continue to question the sanity of anyone refusing to line up and get vaccinated. 
Yet, they continue to ignore a much “bigger” issue. As the Trends Journal has been reporting for the better part of a year, the fact that 72 percent of the American public and approximately the same percentage in the U.K. are either clinically obese or significantly overweight is one of the major reasons both countries, despite expensive health systems, are among the world leaders in COVID fatalities. 
In our article 25 August article, “THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM,” we wrote:
On 10 June, the medical journal BMJ published an editorial citing the high-risk factor of those who are obese contracting COVID-19 and calling on governments to take a more active role in educating and helping to prevent the rise in obesity.
One author, Professor Graham MacGregor of the Queen Mary University of London, said, “I think people have recognized now that based on every study you look at – including the early studies in China which were open studies, then from Europe, then from New York – they all show obesity increases the severity of COVID-19 and increases mortality.”
Stating what has been virtually taboo in the mainstream media and among politicians, he said, “If you’re elderly and male and obese, I would be seriously worried and would do anything to try and lose weight and eat more healthily and take more exercise.”
Now, some ten months later, there is still no significant mention of obesity in regard to COVID vulnerability. Yet, there is now new evidence that obesity and illness are even more of a problem for younger people than older. 
Last week, two major sources, the medical journal The Lancet and Oxford University, published data showing a clear connection between obesity and the rising number of young people showing up in hospitals with COVID-19. The Lancet study published last Wednesday stated: 
“People with excess weight, even without other comorbidities, are at substantially increased risk of admission to hospital and ICU and death due to COVID-19, especially for younger adults and Black people. Excess weight is a modifiable risk factor and investment in the treatment of overweight and obesity and long-term preventive strategies could help reduce the severity of COVID-19 disease.”
The Oxford University data reported by Russia Today last Saturday showed:
“The likelihood of Covid-19 leading to hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death increased with weight. However, the risk was far greater for overweight patients between the ages of 20 and 39. On the other hand, high BMI did not appear to affect whether those aged 80 to 100 suffered from serious cases of the virus.”
Does the mainstream press take notice? Of course not. Last Friday, Microsoft News published the headline:

More younger people being hospitalized with COVID-19

But no mention in the article about obesity.
On 7 April, CNBC posted the headline:

Hospitals are seeing more young adults with severe COVID symptoms, CDC says

But no mention in the article about obesity.
And last Wednesday, Microsoft News joined the press bandwagon with the headline:

In Michigan, more and more young people are being taken to hospital with COVID-19, and cases are higher in teenagers than any other age group

Once again, no mention of obesity.
TRENDPOST: On 8 March, the CDC reported the vast majority of Americans who contracted the virus and were hospitalized, put on a ventilator, or died from COVID-19 were either obese or overweight. Their report stated that between March to December 2020, 27.8 percent of these victims were overweight, and 50.2 percent were obese.
Again, as we note, with some 70 percent of Americans overweight, of which 42 percent are obese, the U.S. is #1 in COVID deaths. 
(See our 26 January article on the link between obesity and COVID: 
“JUNK FOOD VS. COVID-19: THE WINNER IS?” and our 28 July article,
“COVID VICTIMS: THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY FALL.”)