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This is huge. This shows that obesity drives severe COVID outcomes and mortality. We need to tackle the obesity epidemic to help fight COVID. Less driving. More walkable cities. More density. Less highways. We also need to lower food consumption to reduce climate change and greenhouse gases. Over consumption and food waste is one of the primary drivers of climate change.

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And we need to reverse the cultural shift of "healthy at any size." It is literally killing people.

True, BUT: Get your booster. "Three doses against omicron are almost equivalent to the two doses effectiveness we had against the ... original variant," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Wednesday

When do we start to question these companies more critically? They have a huge financial conflict of interest, ranging in the billions of dollars per year, to push their drugs. Instead, they seem to be treated as pure and altruistic actors, while in other contexts such as their pricing of insulin, people recognize them as bad actors.

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