Despite having most of the world being under lockdown as well as increasing vaccination. Without those measures it could easily have been hundreds of millions.
It is ridiculous and baseless to compare it to obesity which is not causing any significant strain on the hospital system like COVID is.
Wrong[1][2][3][4]. I get that it may not be politically convenient for you, but let's not mince words: obesity is killing many more people than COVID ever did or ever will.
[1] https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/essential-insights/obesity....
[2] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111302...
[3] https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/123191/o...
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/04/obesity-putt...
This is a shit metric, deliberately designed to mislead. The real metric that matters is years of life lost (YLL).