The Herald News – Celeste C. Corcoran, MD
Recent reports are quite concerning with regards to the effect of the novel coronavirus on the childhood obesity rates in the United States. The pandemic has shed light on how food insecurity, access to health care, poverty, and unsafe neighborhoods all affect the rates of childhood obesity. Rhode Island, sadly, is listed as the eleventh-worst state in the nation. We are also seeing that obesity has been a worrisome predisposing condition for contracting and having poor outcomes with the coronavirus.