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Will the COVID-19 vaccine work as well in patients with obesity?

  • Written by Cate Varney, Clinical Physician, University of Virginia
Will the COVID-19 vaccine work as well in patients with obesity?Patients with overweight or obesity issues make up more than 70% of the U.S. population.Peter Dazeley via Getty Images

When researchers began to develop what they hoped would be an effective COVID-19 vaccine, they already knew that H1N1 influenza – a novel virus, like COVID-19 – more severely affected patients with overweight or obesity....

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