<p>Critics mocked CNN for sharing a study on Monday that linked obesity to complications and even death from COVID-19, most saying that the news organization was finally reporting on something that people had been trying to say since the beginning of the pandemic.</p>
<p>&#8220;People who are overweight or obese are at a much higher risk of much more severe disease and even death from Covid-19 — and one new study suggests that losing weight can reduce that risk,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1477976802178088966">CNN&#8217;s tweet</a> read.</p>
<p>From the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/health/covid-weight-loss-wellness/index.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=2022-01-03T12%3A15%3A03&amp;utm_term=link&amp;utm_source=twCNN">accompanying article</a>, titled, &#8220;Can weight loss help protect against COVID-19?&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>People who are overweight or obese are at a much higher risk of much more severe disease and even death from Covid-19, and one new study suggests that losing weight can reduce that risk.</p>
<p>The obesity epidemic has been a threat to Americans&#8217; health for years. It&#8217;s the second leading cause of preventable death, after smoking. With Covid-19, it becomes even more dangerous. One study found that 30% of Covid-19 hospitalizations were in people with obesity.</p>
<p>The obesity clinic where Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford works in Boston has a 1,000-plus person wait list that grew a lot longer with the pandemic. Even with more than a dozen specialists on staff, it&#8217;s not enough to meet the demand.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are overwhelmed with the volume of patients that have really made that connection between obesity and Covid and the need for them to get appropriate care,&#8221; said Cody Stanford, who is also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.</p></blockquote>
<p>The study also noted that people who were <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/covid-19-proves-the-danger-of-the-body-positive-celebration-of-obesity/">obese</a> were potentially at <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/whole-foods-ceo-blasted-for-condemning-american-obesity-linking-it-to-covid-19-deaths/">greater risk</a> to contract the virus in the first place. Additionally, &#8220;it found that they are also more at risk of getting really sick, facing a 113% higher chance of being hospitalized, a 74% higher risk of needing to be treated in the ICU and — perhaps most troubling of all — a 48% increased risk of death.&#8221;</p>
<p>The risk, according to the article, increases as Body Mass Index goes up.</p>
<p>&#8220;YOU DON&#8217;T SAY?????&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1478077033859072003">Bridget Phetasy</a> replied.</p>
<p>Some noted that, early on in the pandemic, gyms had been forced to close and people had been told to stay inside their homes — a factor that could have contributed to weight gain in many cases.</p>
<p>&#8220;Can we all agree and insist that gyms are essential services. Stay fit, stay strong and stay healthy,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/John_Kavanagh/status/1478075405454163976">John Kavanagh</a> said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Thank God we shut down the gyms&#8230;,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/NateOnTheHill/status/1478059542286065668">Nate Madden</a> — communications director for Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) added.</p>
<p>&#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Nearly half of Americans gained weight during the lockdowns, with an average gain of 29 pounds. 10% gained 50lbs or more. </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">By closing things down, we actually may have *increased* the risk.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=“Nearly%20half%20of%20Americans%20gained%20weight%20during%20the%20lockdowns%2C%20with%20an%20average%20gain%20of%2029%20pounds.%2010%25%20gained%2050lbs%20or%20more.%20By%20closing%20things%20down%2C%20we%20actually%20may%20have%20*increased*%20the%20risk.”&amp;src=typed_query">CNBC&#8217;s</a> Brian Sullivan said.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1478060827521519621">Greg Price</a> noted that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had received a &#8220;strike&#8221; for promoting &#8220;misinformation&#8221; on Twitter when she had tweeted that Covid-19 vaccines vaccines &#8220;should not be forced on our military for a virus that is not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the covid misinformation &#8216;strikes&#8217; that got MTG banned from Twitter was a tweet saying that covid is more dangerous for people who are obese,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The Republicans on the <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1478056299602534412">House Judiciary Committee</a> noticed that as well, adding, &#8220;Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted this. Twitter flagged it as &#8216;misinformation.&#8217; Unbelievable.&#8221;</p>

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