The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) (pictured) has highlighted the interconnection of obesity and impaired metabolic health with the severity of COVID-19.
In a Nature Reviews Endocrinology article the authors first provide information about the independent relationships of obesity, disproportionate fat distribution and impaired metabolic health with the severity of COVID-19. Then they discuss mechanisms for a complicated course of COVID-19 and how this disease may impact on the global obesity and cardiometabolic pandemics. Link here:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/dzfd-tio012121.php