Stopping a Pandemic Deadlier Than Covid

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Essay: Cardiovascular disease is America’s deadliest pandemic but also its most preventable, writes former CDC director Tom Frieden

Although Covid is the most visible pandemic of our lifetime, it is neither the deadliest nor the most preventable. That distinction goes to cardiovascular disease, a pandemic so common it is invisible, so routinely lethal it seems normal, and so ingrained in the fabric of modern society it seems natural.

Every year, cardiovascular disease kills twice as many people, at a younger average age, as Covid has at its worst, and since 2020, there’s been aFortunately, we don’t need heroic medical innovation to turn back this pandemic. We already have the public health tools needed to prevent most early cardiovascular deaths. The question is whether we can muster the social and political will to use them.

 

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Super men !.

Maybe, and just spitballing here, overhauling the US health care system and providing health care for all?

The ways of bourgeoisie cannot defeat China. The west were still losing to China for 40 years, only I am exposing China's crime, and I have not been completely saved. The world needs a real revolution road!

But it's not covid, so it doesn't really matter ...

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Slobs

PS. During the next conscripted war, American soldiers will be obese blobs covering the battlefield.

That's because many in the US have horrific diets. Many diseases are directly related to diet (i.e., obesity). In 1970, manufacturers began adding high fructose corn syrup to their products & in 1984, Coke & Pepsi switched from sugar to HFCS. Now, the majority in the US are obese

โน้ต: short note: 'The three leading drivers of heart attacks and strokes—accounting for around two-thirds of the global total— are tobacco use, hypertension and air pollution,'

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