Wegovy and Covid Deaths, RFK Jr.'s Threat to Public Health, and More

Your monthly link roundup and analysis, soon to be twice a month!

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Welcome back to the Rethinking Wellness link roundup! Each month I’ve been offering a small collection of links from around the internet that are relevant to the conversations we have here, along with some quick takes and occasional deeper dives for paid subscribers. This feature has been popular, so going forward I’ve decided to start doing it twice as often 👯

This time, the takes/dives are about a study that supposedly shows Wegovy protects against Covid deaths, and what it means that anti-vaccine crusader RFK Jr. has joined team Trump.

Links

Here are some pieces that got me thinking this month. I generally enjoyed all of these, but links are not endorsements of every single detail in the piece or everything the writer ever wrote.

• The men making clean eating cool again (

  Laura Thomas, PhD, RNutr
  )

• Don’t fall for ‘clinically proven’ beauty products (Dazed, with quotes from

  Jessica DeFino
  )

• Does everyone *really* need routine vaccinations? (

  Katelyn Jetelina
  and
  Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD
  )

• New study: What actually matters for kids and screens (

  Jacqueline Nesi, PhD
  and
  Dr. Cara Goodwin, PhD
  )

• Are GLP-1 Drugs Causing Eating Disorders? (

  Ragen Chastain
  )

Plus: In Case You Missed It

• Seed Oils, Bizarre Wellness Claims, and Some Exciting Updates

• Fighting Mental-Health Misinformation and Wellness Pseudoscience with

  Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

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Quick Takes / Deeper Dives

Wegovy and Covid Deaths, and RFK Jr.'s Threat to Public Health

Does Wegovy Really Protect Against Covid Deaths?

Hi Christy, I just saw a post from Unbiased Science about how Wegovy (the diet drug) “shows surprising protective effect against Covid-19 deaths.” Of course it was tested on people who are, according to the BMI, “ob*se.” Could you shed some light on this study?