Collected Item: “Weight Bias and COVID-19”
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Weight Bias and COVID-19
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article, social media post
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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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#institutionalizedhate, #fatphobia, #weightbias, #medicalprofessionals, #FoodisLife, #COVID-19, #deathrate
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https://twitter.com/rfrosencrans/status/1289598476649525248, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27385315/
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Robert Rosencrans, Ying Sun, Quanyi Wang, Guoyan Yang, Changying Lin, Yi Zhang, Peng Yang
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2020-08-01