A top Russian official said last week that COVID-19 is especially dangerous for those who suffer from diabetes and pointed to statistics showing these patients are 10.3 times more likely to come down with the virus.
“In patients with diabetes, Covid-19 infection is 10.3 times more common,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said, according to RT.com. “Patients with diabetes experience the disease more severely, and more frequently develop acute respiratory distress syndrome, as well as respiratory failure, [requiring] artificial ventilation and, unfortunately, [experiencing] higher mortality.”
TRENDPOST: Ms. Golikova’s claim is not new. As we have been reporting since the outbreak, people suffering from obesity and diabetes are among the highest at-risk group for COVID deaths and infection.
Indeed, Reuters reported that in July, about 40 percent of those in the U.S. who died from the virus had diabetes. But this fact, as well as the others, including the CDC report that 94 percent of those who died from the virus had 2.6 pre-existing chronic illnesses and some 50 percent were from elder care homes, is barely reported.
