Press: "14% OF PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-19 DEVELOPED DIABETES!!!"
Reality: the CDC estimates 27% of US adults 65 and over have diabetes. 5.4% are undiagnosed, and diabetes is a major risk factor for covid.
How many of those patients just had their undiagnosed diabetes, diagnosed?
"He was hospitalized with covid-19 in early July. During a follow-up visit with his doctor, he learned he had dangerously high blood glucose levels and was readmitted."
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Sources re: diabetes risk: https://www.healio.com/news/endocrinology/20200407/diabetes-may-worsen-outcomes-in-covid19
https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/01/why-people-with-diabetes-are-being-hit-so-hard-by-covid-19/
Those estimates are an approximately 2x to 3x increase in hospitalization risk. Quite compatible with hospitalization leading to undetected diabetes accounting for the entire 14%
@pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
They don't know what causes Type 1, if they think COVID causes Type 1 isn't that a step forward to finding out. Also they seem to think Type 1 might be temporary 🤔 from my understanding this is not the case.
@pete who would of thought having high blood pressure and being obese would cause an increase chance of falling ill...
comorbidities have some nerve
CDC source: https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pdfs/data/statistics/national-diabetes-statistics-report.pdf