Commentary: The key reason for the lethal impact of COVID-19 in the U.S. is the health of the American people.
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With the caveat that the actual figures from China are unknown, in the past three years, the U.S. is the only country in the world that has suffered more than 1 million deaths from COVID-19. The U.S. death total exceeds that of every other country, except Brazil, by more than half a million. Even when normalized for population, the U.S. per capita death rate is just outside the top 10 in the world and rising steadily.
A much more important set of factors is the twin American demons of obesity and diabetes, which often coexist. This “twindemic” has been the scourge of elderly Americans and accounts for a significant fraction of U.S. COVID-19 deaths.
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