“Obesity is, like, the No. 1 factor in whether you really get hit hard by COVID-19.”
What PolitiFact found
We did not find any study that showed that obesity is the No. 1 risk factor in hospitalization cases of COVID-19. Evidence so far shows age as the top factor but obesity is also a risk factor.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (governor of Florida) made this claim around 14 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 April 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Ron DeSantis has 64 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 38 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- thefloridachannel.orghttps://thefloridachannel.org/videos/4-14-20-press-conference-on-coronavirus-covid-19/
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