"
Lindo Bacon, formerly Linda Bacon".
She is a
troon (pronouns
they/them) because of fucking course. And if you listen to a troon for medical advice, you have only yourself to blame.
And in the end, what the reports say, and
what the CDC suggests at the moment, is that a high BMI is associated with ICU admissions or other severe outcomes. This may be true or it may be not; given the criteria of ventilator use and ICU admissions differ from center to center, we need more throughout analysis. But this statement as it stand is not in any way discriminatory; fatties should stop getting worked up and start working out.
About ICU policies:
> Bacon: "High BMI is currently being used to exclude people from ventilator treatment due to the shortage"
> Wolrich: "The latest report on COVID-19 from the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre in the UK is pretty conclusive. There is no evidence to suggest that BMI is a risk factor for admission to ICU with COVID-19"
If both statements are true, my conclusion would be that fatsos are indeed
more likely to develop severe complications, but because some fatties are excluded by virtue of BMI alone, the ICU admission statistics end up roughly on par with non-fats. This sort of threw the monkey wrench in their argument didn't it?