COVID seems to be causing diabetes in some people!

[thewayne]

Yeah, we need more weirdness.

Apparently COVID infections are producing a form of diabetes in some people that is possibly transient. In some cases it starts as Type 1 then becomes Type 2. Very weird. They've started an anonymized repository called CoviDiab to build a better knowledgebase of what's going on and to try to find out is it the disease, or might it be the disease plus drugs being used in treatment, or just WTF.

Strange days indeed.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-global-data-effort-probes-whether-covid-causes-diabetes/

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[thewayne]

Also, see “Getting rid of pre-existing medical condition coverage” including all of the Americans who have gotten COVID. Wonderful timing for the Republicans. Pity Trump has Gold-plated Cadillac insurance for the rest of his life, otherwise him having gotten it he’d be among the uninsurable.

[silveradept]

I think he could find coverage, at least, if he's the smart businessman making money hand over fist that he claims to be to all of us. I suspect the real truth is much more like what he shows on his taxes, and that he'd have to make do with whatever Medicare could provide him with, at least until his friends finally manage to disassemble that program, too. At which point the con can't continue, but also it's well past the point where he stopped being useful to the Republicans, so they won't care about him, either.