Obesity: the “Achilles heel” for COVID-19?

Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is the infectious disease caused by the recently discovered coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The first case of COVID-19 was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by Chinese authorities on December 31th 2019 as a result of a patient suffering pneumonia in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. Following a rapid spread in China, new outbreaks occurred in northern Italy and in several European countries. On March 12th 2020 WHO announced COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
Source: Metabolism - Clinical and Experimental - Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Source Type: research