Obesity and corona ‘cannot be seen separately’: ‘Fat tissue shelter for virus’ Inland

‘Findings another wake-up call’

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Maastricht – Scientists already knew that obesity is an independent risk factor for a serious course of disease after being infected with the corona virus. But now it has also been shown in the US why: the coronavirus settles in the fat cells and in immune cells in the body fat. From there it affects other organs.