Erschienen in:
02.07.2021 | Letter to the Editor
The Invisible and Insidious Enemy
verfasst von:
Marvin Wei Jie Chua
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 12/2021
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Excerpt
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus is invisible, harmful, and indeed often lethal, and spreads rapidly. However, for all of us in the throes of this pandemic, is there something else lurking in the background with the same characteristics, and then some? I previously reported the “clash of the two pandemics” to describe the bi-directional relationship between obesity and COVID-19 [
1]. However, it appears that there is an element common to both conditions which on top of being invisible and harmful and spreading rapidly, is also insidious—stigma and discrimination. …