There's also concern a vaccine could be less effective for people with obesity due to a weakened immune response, researchers say.
Obesity increases the risk of contracting the coronavirus, of landing in the hospital and intensive care unit, and the risk of death from Covid-19, according to a new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
They found obese people had a 46% greater risk of catching Covid-19 than non-obese people, and a 113% increased risk of hospitalization. For example,"the prevalence of individuals with obesity in hospitalized patients was much higher than that in nonhospitalized patients," the researchers wrote. They cited a report on 5,700 obese patients in New York City, which showed 42% of hospitalized Covid-19 patients were obese compared to only 22% of the city's population.
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