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01-08-2020 | Obesity | Letter to the Editor
The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Obesity and Bariatric Surgery
Authors:
Abdulzahra Hussain, Kamal Mahawar, Shamsi El-Hasani
Published in:
Obesity Surgery
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Issue 8/2020
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Excerpt
The COVID-19 pandemic had overwhelmed the global health systems, resulting in a significant number of deaths especially in Europe and the United States of America (USA). Though it is impossible to be certain of the exact number of deaths and infections worldwide, the apparent COVID-19 case fatality rate in Italy seems to be higher than that in China (11.75% versus 4.02%). As of 11 April 2020, the apparent mortality rate in the United Kingdom (UK) was 12.50% (9875 deaths among confirmed 78,991 COVID-19 cases) compared with 3.7% in the USA [
1,
2]. These figures are likely to change as we learn more about the pandemic and also because current numbers include a large number of patients who have not yet fully recovered from the disease as well as miss a large number of asymptomatic or undiagnosed patients. …
