Summary Unit V Project.docx SOC 1010 COVID -19 Photo Project Columbia Southern University SOC 1010 Image 1: Many very sick COVID-19 patients, like some in this Brazilian intensive care unit, have obesity. (Gustavo, 2020). As many people know, COVID-19 hi

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Image 1: Many very sick COVID-19 patients, like some in this Brazilian intensive care

unit, have obesity. (Gustavo, 2020).

As many people know, COVID-19 hit the world hard in 2020. Patients arrived at the

hospital with flu-like symptoms and fever. They were tested for COVID-19, and results were

positive. The main symptom that these patients were having was shortness of breath. A lot of

these patients ended up on ventilators, and many died. Another factor that doctors were seeing

in these patients was obesity. These were healthy people but the major risk factor for getting

this sick was obesity. This issue was seen not only the elderly but particularly the younger

generations. People with obesity are more likely than normal-weight people to have other

diseases that are independent risk factors for severe COVID-19, including heart disease, lung

disease, and diabetes.