2020: It Was Quite a Year!

While the first reported case of SARS-CoV-2 occurred in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, giving the name to the disease COVID-19, the World Health Organization declared this a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30, 2020, and a pandemic on March 11, 2020 Persons with obesity indeed have increased rates of comorbid conditions, often have impaired immune responses to viral threats and abnormal proinflammatory and prothrombotic profiles, and experience stigma in health care settings where they are at a disadvantage because of their size (limited use of diagnostic equipment and therapeutic maneuvers), all factors driving COVID-19 complications and mortality (1) [ ]the annual Obesity Journal Symposium was held virtually at ObesityWeek with an outstanding and diverse group of papers and young scientists presenting their work