Nearly 36% of the first 393 adults admitted to two New York City hospitals with COVID-19 were obese, according to a research letter published late last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.Also, a research letter in JAMA said that screening healthcare professionals (HCPs) in King County, Washington, only for fever, cough, shortness of breath, and sore throat might have led their employers to miss 17% of those with symptoms of the novel coronavirus, and broadening diagnostic criteria to include muscle pain and chills may still have missed 10%.In other research, a study in Clinical Infectious Diseases identified secondary within-household COVID-19 transmission rates of 17.1% of adults and 4% of children in Wuhan, China.Obesity, male