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COVID-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time, not just over a lifetime

  • Written by Cate Varney, Clinician Physician, University of Virginia
COVID-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time, not just over a lifetimeA COVID-19 patient is connected to life-sustaining devices at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside, New York on April 14, 2020. Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the obesity epidemic once again into the spotlight, revealing that obesity is no longer a disease that harms just in the long run but one...

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