Human fat cells can be directly infected with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, providing an additional site for the virus to replicate, according to a group of Stanford researchers who set out to determine the COVID-19 risk posed directly by obesity. According to the researchers mainly based at Stanford’s School of Medicine, studies have shown that fat cells can act as a reservoir for RNA viruses like influenza A and HIV. Their new research, which was released in an October preprint and is awaiting peer-review, suggests that the same is occurring with the CCP virus, which causes the disease COVID-19. Overweight and obese individuals are known to be at higher risk of COVID-19 infection, severe illness, and death. However, the direct contribution of fatty tissue, also known as adipose tissue, to severe disease is still not well understood given the long list of comorbidities associated with obesity and COVID-19, like hypertension …