Plant-based diet’s health benefits play big role in its popularity during pandemic

“What we’ve learned over the last year and a half is that the risk and severity of covid is not equally distributed across the population,” said Jordi Merino, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and leading author of the study. He sought to understand why certain groups — the elderly or those with cardiovascular problems, for example — were more likely to get covid-19 and suffer from a more severe illness.