The south also had some of the loosest pandemic protocols, most ineffective decision making from politicians and their hospital funding seemed to be worse off in the poorest states which just added to the above issues.Obesity is probably the #1 health crisis in this country. And look at the damage Covid has done to the obese as they remain as one of the highest risk groups to suffer severe illness & death. Remember how Delta tore through the Southern states last summer with high rates of hospitalizations & death - the South has by & far the highest rates of obesity found anywhere in his country!
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