How Health Officials Accelerated the Diabetes Pandemic

This disease soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet it wasn't for the reasons you would expect. Why is the media completely oblivious to it?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Diabetes deaths surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, rising 17% in 2020

• Even diabetics who didn’t get COVID-19 suffered, often falling victim to isolation, social distancing, lack of medical care and fear

• Diabetes deaths and diabetes-caused amputations and intensive care admissions have plagued diabetes patients who delayed medical care d…