A Golden Opportunity and Call for Action for Whole of Family Lifestyle Change to Significantly Reduce the Risk of Development of Severe COVID-19 |Biomedgrid

To say COVID-19 has turned every country on its head, causing unprecedented public health, economic and societal pressure, is a colossal understatement. With no known therapies or a preventative vaccine, the novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) strain is responsible globally to date for over three hundred thousand deaths and >4 million infected individuals and a global economic and social shutdown [1]. The lack of an effective preventative vaccine highlights the importance in understanding what modifiable lifestyle factor(s) that predispose any one individual to the development of severe COVID-19 disease, including the risk of mechanical ventilation and death.