Nobody here is complaining about that fat white men are being discriminated against.
> In a series of articles this month, The Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium reported that hospitals in Minnesota, Utah, New York, Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin have been using race as a factor in which COVID-19 patients receive scarce monoclonal-antibody treatments first. Last year, SSM Health, a network of 23 hospitals, began using a points system to ration access to Regeneron. The drug would be given to patients only if they netted 20 points or higher. Being “non-White or Hispanic” counted for seven points, while obesity got you only one point—even though, according to the CDC, “obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to a COVID-19 infection.” Based on this scoring system, a 40-year-old Hispanic male in perfect health would receive priority over an obese, diabetic 40-year-old white woman with asthma and hypertension.
I read that part. As I said, the FDA has already removed monoclonal antibodies from the list of approved treatments for COVID. This part clearly ignored that fact. And if they’re going to base the whole article on something that is no longer an approved treatment, then they don’t deserve any more of my attention.
For example, their evidence for why obesity should be rated higher is that obese people are more likely to be hospitalized for COVID.
Which says absolutely nothing about whether they are at greater risk of adverse outcomes once they have been hospitalized or whether the treatments work better for obese people.
They also try to appear clever by invoking “correlation is not causation” but I’m the absence of information about causation, correlation is what medical and health boards have to depend on.
Finally the ultimate giveaway about how this isn’t a “wokeness” or “progressive” issue at all is the list of states.
Missouri, Utah, Wisconsin are hardly “woke” or “liberal” states. Minnesota or Illinois come close, but are still deeply purple. And only NY is a true blue state.
So what’s the explanation for progressive wokeness infecting a whole spectrum of states, including decidedly non blue states like Utah and Missouri?
4 comments
[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 19.4 ms ] thread> In a series of articles this month, The Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium reported that hospitals in Minnesota, Utah, New York, Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin have been using race as a factor in which COVID-19 patients receive scarce monoclonal-antibody treatments first. Last year, SSM Health, a network of 23 hospitals, began using a points system to ration access to Regeneron. The drug would be given to patients only if they netted 20 points or higher. Being “non-White or Hispanic” counted for seven points, while obesity got you only one point—even though, according to the CDC, “obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to a COVID-19 infection.” Based on this scoring system, a 40-year-old Hispanic male in perfect health would receive priority over an obese, diabetic 40-year-old white woman with asthma and hypertension.
For example, their evidence for why obesity should be rated higher is that obese people are more likely to be hospitalized for COVID.
Which says absolutely nothing about whether they are at greater risk of adverse outcomes once they have been hospitalized or whether the treatments work better for obese people.
They also try to appear clever by invoking “correlation is not causation” but I’m the absence of information about causation, correlation is what medical and health boards have to depend on.
Finally the ultimate giveaway about how this isn’t a “wokeness” or “progressive” issue at all is the list of states.
Missouri, Utah, Wisconsin are hardly “woke” or “liberal” states. Minnesota or Illinois come close, but are still deeply purple. And only NY is a true blue state.
So what’s the explanation for progressive wokeness infecting a whole spectrum of states, including decidedly non blue states like Utah and Missouri?