Keep hearing about comorbidity factors like "obesity" for this brand new, horrifyingly deadly, highly infectious virus. I have heard from a nurse who said basically "the virus real, there are people in hospitals who are very sick from it, but there is a clear association with obesity". But she doesn't mention that obesity has also been a comorbidity factor with influenza, something which has been known about for years now. More evidence that this new virus is essentially another flu. So every year hundreds of thousands worldwide have been dying from the flue, and no one thought anything about it. And then suddenly, in 2020, the year of the election…. Well you know the rest.
Obesity and Influenza ~ 2011
The association between obesity and
influenza was first noted during the early
phase of the 2009 influenza A(H1N1)
pandemic, when data from many countries
around the world indicated that obese
persons were disproportionally represented among influenza-associated hospitalizations and deaths [1–6].
https://watermark.silverchair.com/cir448.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAApowggKWBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggKHMIICgwIBADCCAnwGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQM2B2lZqIRzwW0PenPAgEQgIICTarR0ik2gs4Wlhkycg7Fs6hpHIcI7hr4sLBeGSFMG23LngfdESc_lnfWe0pdOrYd90bUbe6L_QLGKaF7N94Ds8zyPoeSD1YCnZlYsUqZn5XZ81OP35il8HBvSgcEOiqxZo2DEC23U4U1gEiLR9CXuQMNv5fLCX-cUX-vTKXZoITaefk0b-xKE9KHiAO83tKT0ONu6mXrp4jjoTD9LBqmEvsh3vICHljqkHUOsMSQpEOvme8_MdSjqkz4uW9PmqVSnfnvyTY22-O97yeKA14eKGTBGjZU4B3CVMow5gE4TdZYmK5IuzpCJcDe_VaHB3kn2i4McVZE1SkykpA_C1Mo9rjsw-BnZUsFYjsPZH86JnxGXUYyynioBAcMIdGjU2g5PROB9eomTVrFbMGuwKjbDShu7xqRK16KykdP8DZCu51QGir8kWyvhYXsA9eP17quQ9A1aDUa3M8Hl1RQc6L4CcbJQTIMPJ5sI7Yr-924stuRn_tz1STgSsEfW8d5Kcp9st8M1_pWoxr5l-Wnrxp9mRmDXQ09lROVRjoeFrIT5PcRIx14UZfDaFsdfdxxrBrwKguRqVd3yRf6Wy9S1-Vev-URcE5HcqWiV14Hv-Xeteasr4tv0X6iXBEKZ4jrUidMkaaUyYRwt9BnOhSYaHE0iV2M1gc63vZeCkp7CAEkCmuEqZJmq9SaPVU8NV74SUzRzEpz-7hk5TK8kb2cy04fFN-_TxaIKRZQXqhBEHIZ5w7U2C94cZPdeqDeaNc_Zo8aHFPLoU8klMSjnWyJBY0
Obesity Impairs the Adaptive Immune Response to Influenza Virus ~ Nov 2017
Abstract
Influenza, a highly contagious respiratory tract infection, affects millions of adults and children each year. Several high-risk populations include children, the elderly, the immunocompromised, and recently the obese.
Impact of Obesity on Influenza A Virus Pathogenesis, Immune Response, and Evolution ~ Abstract, 2019
Influenza, a highly contagious respiratory tract infection, affects millions of adults and children each year. Several high-risk populations include children, the elderly, the immunocompromised, and recently the obese. Given the dramatic rise in obesity over the past few decades, this increased risk for influenza infection poses a serious public health threat because nearly 500 million adults and children worldwide are classified as obese. Obesity impairs the immune response to influenza and influenza vaccination through alterations of the cellular immune system. Compared with vaccinated healthy-weight adults, vaccinated obese adults have twice the risk of influenza or influenza-like illness despite equal serological response to vaccination. This challenges the current standard of protection for influenza and suggests that further vaccination methods or therapeutics are required to combat this virulent respiratory virus.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711276/