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Weight Bias and COVID-19
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Weight Bias and COVID-19
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It may seem strange to reference a study about obesity and H1N1 but if you are a member of the fat community it makes complete sense to reference medical mistreatment to understand what is happening to fat bodies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Obesity is said to be one of the risk factors with the highest death rate for COVID-19. As a fat asthmatic, I find it hard to believe that my body fat will be the death of me faster than my inflammation prone lungs. What I and others living in large bodies know is that medical professionals carry a traumatic and often dangerous bias against us. We swap war stories in the comment section of social media posts about the multiple times doctors have mistreated, ignored, or nearly killed us due to their often blatant ignorance. This study shows just how that bias has resulted in the death of patients before and how that bias may be the reason more obese patients die from COVID-19 then thinner patients.
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article, social media post
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National Library of Medicine
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Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
08/07/2020
08/02/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
08/19/2020
08/21/2020
12/06/2020
01/30/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
07/06/2020
This item was submitted on August 7, 2020 by Stephanie Berry using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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