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[MinnieM]

Covid might get me to lose 10 pounds... it seems we all need to be skinny!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8291869/Obese-people-risk-coronavirus-fat-cells-infection-targets.html

Fat cells make large amounts of a protein used by the deadly infection to infiltrate human cells

The coronavirus latches onto ACE-2 receptors, known as the 'gateway' into cells

Scientists said fat cells express high levels of ACE-2 which make them a target

ACE-2 is also widely expressed in the fat cells of people with type 2 diabetes

The UK Government are looking into the links between obesity and COVID-19