The rising star of the pharmaceutical world could help prevent the worst effects of a future pandemic, including fewer excess deaths, medical experts have said.
of comorbidities ranked diabetes and hypertension—both caused by obesity—among the top three for COVID deaths. One of the studies it examined, from 2020, found that 67 percent of its sample were obese, of whom 15 percent died as a result of infection; among those morbidly obese, 17 percent died.
At a recent meeting of immunologists he attended in Oxford, Katz noted research was being discussed on whether there were genetic reasons for higher mortality among some demographics.
This is not to say it is a wonder drug, though, as the National Library of Medicine notes, it has been known to cause tumors in lab animals, but it remains unclear if it causes a higher risk in humans. Influenza circulates in the general population, and the healthcare industry usually steps up the production of flu vaccines for the variant they think will be the most prevalent in a given winter. The Swine Flu pandemic occurred because a novel and unexpected variant of the virus developed.
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