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Authors
Saccon, Tatiana Dandolini
Mousovich-Neto, Felippe http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8245-9450
Ludwig, Raissa Guimarães
Carregari, Victor Corasolla
dos Anjos Souza, Ana Beatriz
dos Passos, Amanda Stephane Cruz http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6072-1721
Martini, Matheus Cavalheiro
Barbosa, Priscilla Paschoal
de Souza, Gabriela Fabiano
Muraro, Stéfanie Primon http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5105-6659
Forato, Julia
Amorim, Mariene Ribeiro
Marques, Rafael Elias http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6949-0947
Veras, Flavio Protasio
Barreto, Ester http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1982-5841
Gonçalves, Tiago Tomazini http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7503-6062
Paiva, Isadora Marques http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2741-150X
Fazolini, Narayana P. B.
Onodera, Carolina Mie Kawagosi
Martins Junior, Ronaldo Bragança
de Araújo, Paulo Henrique Cavalcanti
Batah, Sabrina Setembre
Viana, Rosa Maria Mendes
de Melo, Danilo Machado
Fabro, Alexandre Todorovic
Arruda, Eurico
Queiroz Cunha, Fernando
Cunha, Thiago Mattar http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1084-0065
Pretti, Marco Antônio M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9511-294X
Smith, Bradley Joseph
Marques-Souza, Henrique http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5008-8413
Knittel, Thiago L.
Ruiz, Gabriel Palermo
Profeta, Gerson S.
Fontes-Cal, Tereza Cristina Minto
Boroni, Mariana
Vinolo, Marco Aurélio Ramirez
Farias, Alessandro S. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6759-1819
Moraes-Vieira, Pedro Manoel M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8263-786X
Bizzacchi, Joyce Maria Annichino
Teesalu, Tambet
Chaim, Felipe David Mendonça http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4195-6143
Cazzo, Everton
Chaim, Elinton Adami
Proença-Módena, José Luiz http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4996-3153
Martins-de-Souza, Daniel http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3595-5846
Osako, Mariana Kiomy http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5021-8433
Leiria, Luiz Osório http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9483-3705
Mori, Marcelo A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7112-5263
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
AstraZeneca
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Article History
Received: 21 March 2022
Accepted: 8 September 2022
First Online: 29 September 2022
Competing interests
: Marcelo A. Mori received funds from AstraZeneca and Natura for isolation and culture of adipose tissue mesenchymal stem cells for obesity- and aging-related research. The grants did not anticipate COVID-19 research. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by local Research Ethics Committees and conducted by local researchers, and all of those who contributed significantly were included as authors. Engaging local researchers and sharing authorship among equal contributors have helped to stimulate a multidisciplinary environment, promote collaboration, and accelerate research locally in a period where the COVID-19 pandemics imposed many restrictions. Our research is particularly relevant locally since Brazil is one of the countries where obesity and severe COVID-19 have been most prevalent. Moreover, we studied the SARS-CoV-2 gamma variant of concern which has been initially identified in Brazil and led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of people infected, mainly in South America. We have also cited local research relevant to our study whenever possible. Notably, most authors are from public universities in Brazil, which have been actively engaged in including the lower social strata among students and workers, following established long-term governmental policies.
