Obesity is important, but not a decisive factor in Covid death rates
6 March 2021
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Professor Len Shackleton quoted in the Daily Express
6 March 2021
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Julian Jessop quoted in Daily Express
7 March 2021
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Christopher Snowdon writes a letter to The Times
It has been reported that countries with high levels of obesity have suffered greater losses in life from Covid-19. But as IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon wrote in a letter to the Editor of the Times, “we should not infer causation”.
Snowdon argued: “Obesity certainly increases the individual’s risk of dying from Covid-19 but it is not a decisive factor when comparing nations, as the cases of New Zealand and Australia (both of which have a higher rate of obesity than the UK) can confirm”.
Read the full letter here.
Snowdon argued: “Obesity certainly increases the individual’s risk of dying from Covid-19 but it is not a decisive factor when comparing nations, as the cases of New Zealand and Australia (both of which have a higher rate of obesity than the UK) can confirm”.
Read the full letter here.
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