Researchers urge priority vaccination for individuals with diabetes

[Northerner]

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have discovered individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes infected with COVID-19 are three times more likely to have a severe illness or require hospitalization compared with people without diabetes.

Because of this amplified impact, they are urging policymakers to prioritize these individuals for COVID-19 vaccination. Their findings were published in Diabetes Care, the journal of the American Diabetes Association.

While studies have suggested that those with type 2 diabetes are at higher risk for more serious complications and being hospitalized if they get COVID-19, little is known about the risk for individuals with type 1 diabetes. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 1.6 million individuals have type 1 diabetes.

"I think these data support prioritizing individuals with type 1 or individuals with type 2 diabetes for immunization alongside other high-risk medical conditions that increase the risk of getting very sick with COVID-19, such as heart or lung disease," said Justin Gregory, MD, MSCI, lead investigator for the study.

Researchers urge priority vaccination for individuals with diabetes

Researchers have discovered individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes infected with COVID-19 are three times more likely to have a severe illness or require hospitalization compared with people without diabetes.

www.sciencedaily.com

 

[mikeyB]

Three times more likely than what? Nobody even knows the number of people who have had Covid-19, let alone the number of folk with diabetes have had it.

 

[trophywench]

Roughly proportionate to the number of false votes cast for Joe, perhaps?