![]() ![]() However, after the fact, it turned out that patients with obesity were provided with antivirals, that later in the course of their disease, when they controlled for when antivirals were provided, there was no increased risk any longer as a consequence of their obesity. But there are other possibilities which might be more feasible, which is that perhaps we are treating people with obesity who have COVID, differently than we treat others.īROOKE GLADSTONE What leads you to think that?ĭR YONI FREEDHOFF With H1N1, which occurred over a decade ago now, people with obesity just like now were found to have higher risk of death and more severe courses of H1N1. He says that in looking for reasons why patients carrying more weight might more often experience severe COVID, we could be missing explanations that have nothing to do with biology.ĭR YONI FREEDHOFF Maybe people with obesity have differences in the way their bodies respond to this infection from an immune response or from an inflammatory response. Yoni Freedhoff is associate professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa. What we don't fully know is why.īROOKE GLADSTONE Dr. But first, fat in the pandemic.ĭR YONI FREEDHOFF What we know for sure is that obesity is associated with an increased risk of more severe cases of COVID and an increased risk of mortality. We'll also consider how fat figures in culture and politics, in medicine and history. ![]() While you may ask? A key question, we'll consider this our but not the only one. Or like earlier this year, when a paper published by Harvard Medical School, professor Fatima Cody Stanford found that for patients with and without obesity, the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson vaccines provided similar protection in clinical studies, not in the real world. Like how one of the first CDC reports linking BMI to worse outcomes from COVID didn't control for existing health issues. īROOKE GLADSTONE Perfect is a word best avoided in science, especially since a deeper look into the storm surrounding weight and COVID reveals rather imperfect conclusions. So now we have this perfect storm of obesity Pandemic and a covid pandemic. NEWS REPORT The surprising part is that governments haven't really active obesity until now. Mechanical reasons makes it harder to ventilate or breathe. NEWS REPORT Because fat is a metabolically and hormonally active organ literally in the body in terms of that tissue may suppress the immune system. ![]() NEWS REPORT A study by the World Obesity Federation finds almost 90% of COVID deaths are from countries with high rates of obesity. īROOKE GLADSTONE Soon, the damning data followed. ![]() WOMAN I am overweight and I think I need to lose a bit of it so that in case I get infected, I'm not in the danger zone. īROOKE GLADSTONE Pretty stressful for the three quarters of Americans whose BMI's mark us as overweight or worse. NEWS REPORT It can double your chances of hospitalization and increase the risk of landing in intensive care by even more. NEWS REPORT The overweight need to seek solutions. Numerous studies link obesity to a higher risk of serious illness from the new coronavirus. NEWS REPORT Before you open that pack of chips. From almost the moment coronavirus began sweeping our shores in the spring of 2020, one group of Americans was declared to be among the most at risk no matter their age, medical history or general healthiness. We are going to create a hierarchy, a reinvention of what was known in the 16th century as the great shame of being.īROOKE GLADSTONE How scary is fat? After this.īROOKE GLADSTONE From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. We need models of beauty that speak to our values. SABRINA STRING We're talking about the 18th century. JORDAN PETERSON All of a sudden, this non-athletic body is as beautiful as the standard swimsuit model for Sports Illustrated. KATIE LEBESCO Whose privilege is being threatened by folks who didn't used to have power. KATHERINE FLEGAL That finding we had, that really perturbed people, was overweight, was associated with fewer deaths than expected compared to somebody with normal weight. At the same time.ĭR YONI FREEDHOFF People with obesity are treated differently by the medical profession. KATIE LEBESCO We see it almost impossible to think that somebody could be fat and healthy. NEWS REPORT Fat is a metabolically and hormonally active organ. BROOKE GLADSTONE On this week's On the Media, a whole lot of fat panic. ![]()
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