Exercise, Vaccines Make for Happy Thanksgiving

It is true that excess weight around the waist and deep in the abdomen near organs is associated with higher hospitalization and death rates with COVID. “People who think only obese people are in the hospital should come to Banner and see, like I do every day, that not everyone who dies is obese. The main issue is that COVID is unpredictable,” said Elizabeth Connick, MD, chief of infectious diseases at the College of Medicine – Tucson and Banner-University Medical Center.