SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an inflammatory response

Re:SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an in... by bellyfullofbac on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:53AM (#29510540)

I'm going to issue 2 ignorant assumptions of mine and a "could it be" hypothesis, but assuming 1) That not a lot of Africans are obese and 2) Covid has so far not hit Africa that bad; Could it be that their lack of fat tissue is the reason?

Yeah, this is the Internet and I could do research to confirm or deny 1) and 2), but hey I'm just here because I'm distracting myself from work right now.

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Re:SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an in... by petesergeant on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:36AM (#29511089)

> That not a lot of Africans are obese

I don't think that's accurate. Eye-balling this[0], northern African and South African women are more obese than most European and US countries, and although men seem less obese, when you look at it overall, over 50-60% of adult South Africans and northern Africans are overweight or obese, compated to 75% of Americans. Obviously cherry-picking a bit here and ignoring western and most of sub-Saharan Africa, but I don't think "not a lot of Africans are obese" stands up as an assumption.

[0] https://data.worldobesity.org/rankings/?age=a&sex=f

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Re:SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an in... by belltaco on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:02AM (#29510651)

There are several factors, higher Vitamin D levels because of time spent outdoors, median age of the population, co-morbidities including diabetes, levels and availability of testing and gathering data etc. etc.

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Re:SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an in... by whimsicalism on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:11AM (#29510769)

likely much more to do with

1. poor testing

2. much younger skewing population compared to any other continent.

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