Research is our best weapon in the fight against Covid-19 and obesity

The obesity and Covid 19 pandemics have been shown to be interconnected, and both urgently require more research to provide clear evidence of how best to overcome them

health

| leader

July 22, 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his ministers have been repeating a mantra for combating the coronavirus pandemic for months: follow science. Aside from the debates on 'science' – the UK government appears to have had too many model builders and too few public health experts to advise – a evidence-based approach is always a good one.

Sometimes, however, evidence is missing. On January 29, at the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organization published a guide to the use of medical masks by the general public to slow the spread of the virus. It was said that …