Republican State Representative of Georgia Marjorie Taylor Green Said that door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination efforts should pay more attention to obesity.
“If we are going to discuss going from house to house asking people if they have been vaccinated and providing vaccines, then we should definitely discuss with people how to reduce obesity to get rid of…-a risk factor that can lead to hospitalization or death,” she said on Tuesday Said at a press conference held in the Washington DC office.
“This is also a problem that causes many other medical problems and high costs and healthcare, so I think this is something that people should talk about,” she added.
Green even agrees with the former first lady Michelle Obama In the fight against childhood obesity.
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Green held a meeting to discuss Twitter recently imposed a 12-hour ban on her Violating its policy of posting misleading COVID-19 information. A weekend tweet that banned her claimed that COVID-19 is “not dangerous to people under 65 who are not obese.”
According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus has killed 142,241 people under the age of 65.CDC). These deaths accounted for 23.7% of the total number of 598,624 COVID-19-related deaths reported in the United States
Later in the meeting, Green said that 78% of COVID-19 hospitalized patients were obese.Although she did not mention her source, she may be referring to CDC’s March 8 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ReportThe report stated that of the 71,491 American adults hospitalized with COVID-19, 27.8% were overweight and 50.2% were obese.
The CDC stated that obesity increases the risk of serious illness due to COVID-19, and obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to COVID-19 infection.
When asked how she would solve the problem of adult obesity, Green mentioned that she once owned a gym. She said she has heard of “success stories” of people losing weight through exercise and healthy eating during the pandemic. She also said that schools can help teach “healthy eating habits and a good exercise plan” so that “children become adults with good lifelong habits.”
Green said at the meeting: “I support people to get vaccinated, and if they want, I support those who choose not to get vaccinated.” “But I think this must be a choice, not a mandatory requirement, not a school mandatory requirement, not an enterprise. Mandatory requirements are not mandatory requirements by the government.”
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