‘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…