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The Washington Post and the Washington Post Taking a Covid Angle

The washington post ran a story about how regular exercise may improve the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines. The study found that exercisers were 25% less likely to be hospitalized with covid than sedentary people who received the same vaccine but studies didn't look at whether active people gain additional benefits from their coronavirus shots and booster so it was the epitome of the media taking a correlation that even the researchers were not saying was causation which is like you know university level 101 here about correlation doesn't equal causation But evidently the washington post didn't get that memo i mean i don't think they were really looking for that of course what they were trying to do is find a way to

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