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I haven't seen any evidence yet that fitness affects Covid infection outcomes. Age, yes, fitness not so much. And if anything, high performance athletes (as opp
by rob74 4y ago
I haven't seen any evidence yet that fitness affects Covid infection outcomes. Age, yes, fitness not so much. And if anything, high performance athletes (as opposed to regular people who try to keep reasonably fit) are heavily straining their immune system, so actually they are more at risk of infection.
- doix 4y agoObesity leads to worse outcomes [0]. I know it's not the same as 'fitness' (which is a pretty loosely defined term), but we at least know that extremely unfit people have worse outcomes. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html