Thread by @Trinhnomics

What lessons can we learn from Covid-19? For one, let's look at who it kills. We start with race & most excess deaths:

White (red line = 2020 & grey previous years): share of population is highest but also look at the excess deaths or red - white

Black also high &

Hispanic

By disease & I will show you later why the race & disease factors are related, organized by highest excess deaths:

Heart disease (lifestyle, elderly & obvs genetics)
Alzheimer & dementia (elderly disease)

By age excess deaths (red = 2020 & grey = 2015 to2019) & organized by most excess deaths:

>85 or older excess deaths rather high
>75 also high
>65 also high
& even
>45

Less than 44 seem ok esp <25. Okay, what are the lessons here?

Obesity is clearly a factor to the higher white, black & Hispanic deaths relative to Asian as excess deaths of those are higher. And if you look at disease, highest excess deaths is heart disease, something related to obesity.

Obesity prevalence: highest is black women of 56.9%

But white men have a higher incidence of obesity than black men & Hispanic men the highest!!!

Meaning, black, white & Hispanic Americans are pretty similar in obesity prevalence & that's correlated w/ excess deaths by race.

Bottom line: the lesson here is that Americans are too obese & that's a disease & a huge public health issue that Covid-19 exposed.

This is not just a black but white & Hispanic problem too.

Question: What are we going to do about our public health disaster?