Obesity rates and the disease's effects on healthcare demand are well known. Hospitals are built based on predictions of how many types of patients and diseases they will treat. The mitigation of effects of obesity are built into our healthcare system already.
What throws a wrench into all of that planning, and ability to predict and respond to healthcare demand, is a novel pandemic that sends massive amounts of people to the ICU, which the healthcare system was never built to handle.
What throws a wrench into all of that planning, and ability to predict and respond to healthcare demand, is a novel pandemic that sends massive amounts of people to the ICU, which the healthcare system was never built to handle.