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Higher COVID risk in Blacks due to elevated obesity, hypertension and diabetes
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was first discovered in Wuhan, China, in 2019, is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).