Patel Agarwal posted an update in the group Health 4 years ago
There Seem To Be A Correlation Between Obesity And COVID-19 Related Higher Risk Of Hospitalization And Critical Illness In Folks Younger Than 60 Years And With BMI Between 30 And 34. And This May Be Nudging Rates Of Severe Illness And Death In The USA, Higher Than In South Korea, China, and Italy Where Obesity Rates Are Lower.
Obesity may make a coronavirus infection worse – Los Angeles TimesThis may help explain why the coronavirus has hit the U.S. so hard: Obesity appears to be a risk factor for serious cases of COVID-19.