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Obesity might affect how well a coronavirus vaccine works - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Obesity might affect how well a coronavirus vaccine works - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Obesity might affect how well a coronavirus vaccine works - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Aug 05, 2020 59 secs

More than 150,000 people in the United States — nearly 4,000 of them in Georgia — have died from COVID-19, making the need for a vaccine urgent.

Studies have shown that flu, hepatitis B, tetanus and rabies vaccines can be less effective in obese adults than in the general population, and there’s no reason to believe a coronavirus vaccine will be any different.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, 30-35% of Georgia’s adults are obese, meaning their body mass index, or BMI, is 30 or higher?

The CDC initially warned that people who were morbidly obese —having a BMI of 40 or more or were about 100 pounds overweight — were among the groups at highest risk of becoming severely ill with COVID-19.

But blood tests show that obese people and people with related metabolic risk factors such as high blood pressure and elevated blood sugar levels experience a state of chronic mild inflammation; the inflammation turns on and stays on.”.

“Obesity is a serious global problem, and the suboptimal vaccine-induced immune responses observed in the obese population cannot be ignored,” researchers from the Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group wrote in a 2015 study published in the journal Vaccine.

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