Diabetes, Disparities, And Covid-19: Three Intertwined ‘Epidemics’ Raise Risk Of Severe Illness And Death-STAT

There are no easy answers to the coronavirus pandemic, but for people with diabetes, it’s dismayingly difficult to untangle the thicket of biological and socioeconomic factors that make them more likely to suffer severe illness and die should they catch the virus that causes Covid-19. That leaves prevention — controlling blood sugar through diet, exercise, monitoring, and medication — as the leading tactic to protect people, until a successful vaccine proven to work in people with diabetes. STAT, 10/01/2020

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