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Weight Bias and COVID-19

Title (Dublin Core)

Weight Bias and COVID-19

Description (Dublin Core)

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.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 1, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Robert Rosencrans
Ying Sun
Quanyi Wang
Guoyan Yang
Changying Lin
Yi Zhang
Peng Yang

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Stephanie Berry

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

article, social media post

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://twitter.com/rfrosencrans/status/1289598476649525248
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27385315/
https://web.archive.org/save/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27385315/

Publisher (Dublin Core)

National Library of Medicine

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Healthcare
English Community & Community Organizations
English Conflict
English Public Health & Hospitals

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

hate
weight bias
death rate
fat
medical professional

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

institutionalized hate
fatphobia
weight bias
medical professionals
food is life
COVID-19
death rate

Collection (Dublin Core)

Healthcare
Foodways
Deathways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Tracking For Sanity
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/07/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/19/2020
08/21/2020
12/06/2020
01/30/2021
08/02/2022
09/25/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

07/06/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

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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