If you had one more chart added to those "cause of death" charts - and it was an "obesity death" chart - might that do it? It's not put down as a cause of death on death certificates, I presume. It doesn't ordinarily kill you by itself. But combined with covid it can, I would bet, even if a person didn't(yet) have other problems. I was talking with a relative who is a doctor, and we were discussing another relative, and his risk. She said that he was at dire risk of covid due to his obesity, just the obesity.