On Friday, the five-day vote to ratify a tentative agreement between academic workers represented by United Auto Workers, or UAW, 2865 and the Students Researchers Union, or SRU, and the University of California will come to an end.
This study was conducted by researchers from the World Obesity Federation (WOF), an international organization dedicated to supporting efforts to reduce, prevent and treat obesity. The researchers found that around 2.2 million of the over 2.5 million COVID-19 deaths reported around the world by the end of February occurred in countries where more than half of the population is classified as overweight.
The researchers wanted countries with high rates of obesity to recognize that obesity is “a disease in its own right” and a risk factor for other detrimental health conditions, including “significantly worsening the outcomes of a COVID-19 infection.”
“Reducing one major risk factor, overweight, would have resulted in far less stress on health services and reduced the need to protect those services from being overwhelmed,” wrote the federation in the foreword of its report.