- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
- Pronouns
- He/Him
People with diabetes at highest risk from coronavirus must be protected
In partnership with the type 1 diabetes charity, JDRF, we’ve called on the government to immediately add some people with diabetes to the shielding list.We’ve looked at all the available evidence in order to make this call.
Coronavirus cases in the UK are currently extremely high and are rising quickly. And the increased transmissibility (how easy it is to pass from person to person) of the new strain of the virus, is putting our NHS under severe pressure.
People with diabetes have been hit hard by the pandemic. And those at highest risk, who can’t work from home, are being forced to make impossible decisions about their income and their health every day. This cannot go on. This is why we’re asking the government to add more people with diabetes onto the shielding list.
We’ve written to the four Chief Medical Officers of the UK to urgently ask that people who meet all of the following criteria be placed immediately on the shielding list, and so into the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable category:
People with any type of diabetes who are aged 50 years or older, and who have had an HbA1C result in the last 18 months of 75mmol/mol (9%) or above, and have received treatment for a chronic diabetes complication or have been admitted to hospital in the last five years for an acute diabetes complication.
People with diabetes at highest risk from coronavirus to be protected
We’ve looked at all the available evidence in order to make this call. Coronavirus cases in the UK are currently extremely high and are rising quickly. And the increased transmissibility (how easy it is to pass from person to person) of the new strain of the virus, is putting our NHS under...