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Dad claims daughter’s morbid obesity is to blame for tragic coronavirus death

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A grief-stricken dad has said his daughter’s weight was to blame for her death from coronavirus. Silvia Melendez Jr, 24, who weighed 21 stone, died from the deadly disease in March after she was rushed to hospital in Utah, US.

Tragic Silvia Jr had a BMI of 60, double the number considered to be obese and well over the 40 considered morbidly obese. She also suffered from Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and a heart condition which meant she needed surgery two years ago.

Her dad, Marcus told USA Today: “That virus goes after the weakest thing in your body, especially if you are overweight. “The coronavirus was making big damage in her lungs and after that, the virus went to her heart. "She was responding good with oxygen and then the virus

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