coronavirus vaccine before millions of the nation's elderly, according to new official guidelines."At-risk" people aged 18 to 65 considered at-risk are to be vaccinated before those under 65, according to the Government's newly revealed priority list.Those in the high-risk group include the morbidly obese and people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, the latter group tending to be overweight.
Many of the victims of the coronavirus pandemic have been overweight or obese, and fat adults are twice as likely to die of the disease than their thinner contemporaries.
Other members of the high-risk group include organ transplant recipients, people undergoing cancer treatment and those with compromised lung function such as severe asthmatics.