An Obesity Drug Prevents Covid Deaths, Study Suggests

In case anyone else is wondering:

> The protective effect occurred immediately — before participants had lost significant amounts of weight.

So this isn't merely "people who weigh less are less likely to die from COVID, and Wegovy causes people to weigh less." It's something else.

And it wasn't just COVID, the article says Wegovy decreased all-cause mortality. For me, this was perhaps the most interesting part of the article:

> The result suggests that lower life expectancy among people with obesity is actually caused by the disease itself, and that it can be improved by treating obesity.