Severe obesity accelerates the decline of neutralizing antibodies to COVID-19 vaccines contributing to increased risk of hospitalization from breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections.1 These findings have repercussion on the vaccination policy for SARS-CoV-2 variants and other infectious diseases like influenza in obese population.

Jagadeesh Bayry

Biological Sciences and Engineering

Camille Chauvin

Sruthi Vijaya Retnakumar

Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad&nbsp;(IIT Palakkad or IIT PKD) is a public autonomous&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;and&nbsp;research&nbsp;institute located in&nbsp;Palakkad,&nbsp;Kerala. It was&nbsp;one of the five new&nbsp;IITs&nbsp;proposed in the&nbsp;2014 Union budget of India. The campus was inaugurated on 3 August 2015. The institute has 94 faculty, 978 students, and 63 non-teaching staffs.

IT Palakkad currently offers four-year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) and two years MS programmes in 8 different engineering disciplines including&nbsp;Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil among others.

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Journal	Cell Reports Medicine
Publisher	CELL PRESS
ISSN	2666-3791
Open Access	No