SUMMARY:

• The states struggling the most with covid-19 infections also have the least healthy populations.
• About two out of five American adults are obese, according to the CDC. Mostly because they don’t understand how what they eat effects their health.
• Only 23% of people get enough exercise and only one in ten eats enough fruit and vegetables, says the CDC.
• Less than half of Americans are proficient readers, and only 12% are considered by the country’s health department to be “health-literate”.
• Over one-third struggle with basic health tasks, such as following prescription-drug directions.