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‘She didn’t need to die at 42.’ Elicia Heaston told me that after her best friend died in December from type 2 #diabetes. Kate Herrin was among more than 100K Americans who died from diabetes in 2020, up 17% in one year. We wanted to know why. 1/ reuters.com/investigates/s…

Then @RobinRespaut found that deaths from diabetes rose faster in 2020 than for any other disease. Only accidents/overdoses went up more. These weren’t deaths involving #COVID directly. But Herrin and others fell victim to the isolation and disruption. 2/ reuters.com/investigates/s…

During #COVID19, many #diabetes patients became fearful and reluctant to seek care – until they were in crisis. ‘COVID caused more damage than we realized,’ Sandra Arevalo of Montefiore Hospital in N.Y. told us. 3/ reuters.com/investigates/s…

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