COVID-19 and Diabetes – Guidelines from the Centers for Disease

Interesting facts from the CDC:

Evidence collected since the beginning of the pandemic shows that:

• Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were more likely to be readmitted to the same hospital within 2 months of discharge if they had certain chronic conditions, such as diabetes or chronic kidney disease.³³
• Among patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 complications, 39.7% also had diabetes as an underlying medical condition. The percentage increased to 46.5% for patients 50 to 64.¹¹
• People younger than 18 with COVID-19 were up to 2.5 times more likely to be newly diagnosed with diabetes in the months after infection than those without COVID-19 and those who had other respiratory infections before the pandemic.³⁴

Please read the following from the United States Centers for Disease Control regarding the impact of COVID-19 on individuals who have diabetes: