Obesity and Covid-19
The Centre for Disease Control has added obesity to the list of conditions that cause increased risk of severe illness with coronavirus.
Studies from around the world are reporting that excess weight is associated with increased risk of: testing positive, hospitalisation, admission to ICU and mortality. The risk seems to increase progressively with increasing BMI above the healthy weight range. A large New York study showed that people with BMI>30 were 4-6 times more likely to be hospitalised than non-obese patients.
