Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, 2024 PEP Fellow, writes that the COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to take a toll on people with diabetes

Hartmann-Boyce says research she and colleagues conducted in 2023 “found that people with diabetes were about twice as likely to get seriously sick with COVID-19 than people without diabetes, and people with diabetes were more likely to die from COVID-19 than people without diabetes." Read more here

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