{"id":17003,"date":"2020-10-21T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T11:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17003"},"modified":"2020-10-21T07:30:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T11:30:27","slug":"why-obesity-may-limit-covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17003","title":{"rendered":"Why obesity may limit COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Erica Carbajal for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Researchers said they&#8217;re worried that a COVID-19 vaccine may be less effective in those with obesity, reports Nature. The concern stems from links researchers have seen between obesity and a dulled immune response to the virus.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/public-health\/why-obesity-may-limit-covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Microscope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7807\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Microscope-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Microscope-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Microscope.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Erica Carbajal for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Researchers said they&#8217;re worried that a COVID-19 vaccine may be less effective in those<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17004,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions\/17004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}