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Obesity is a major risk factor for severe COVID, and hence transmission and hospital occupation. Like the supposed factors that we are segregating the unvaccina
by Reichhardt 5y ago
Obesity is a major risk factor for severe COVID, and hence transmission and hospital occupation. Like the supposed factors that we are segregating the unvaccinated for.
- tasty_freeze 5y agoObesity doesn't increase the likelihood of transmission, just the severity of the outcome for that individual.
- ncmncm 5y agoThus, "severe COVID".
- mulvya 5y agoObese carriers shed lot more virus, so they would be expected to have higher attack rates. ---- Exhaled aerosol increases with COVID-19 infection, age, and obesity https://www.pnas.org/content/118/8/e2021830118 https://www.pnas.org/content/118/8/e2021830118 In our observational cohort study of the exhaled breath particles of 194 healthy human subjects, and in our experimental infection study of eight nonhuman primates infected, by aerosol, with SARS-CoV-2, we found that exhaled aerosol particles vary between subjects by three orders of magnitude, with exhaled respiratory droplet number increasing with degree of COVID-19 infection and elevated BMI-years.