have found small increases of type 1, for instance, but not necessarily among children who caught covid-19, suggesting that the indirect effects of the pandemic are to blame, not the virus itself. A delay in seeking care, for example, would raise the risk that a person’s initial symptoms go unnoticed until they develop serious complications like diabetic ketoacidosis.
Even the authors of the new study in JAMA Pediatrics are careful to note its limitations. For one, they were only able to look at whether children had an active case of covid-19 at the time of their admission, not whether they ever had been infected. In the study, about 2.1% of children tested positive for the virus. And though they were inspired to study this data after anecdotally noticing an increase in cases at their hospital, they’re still not sure why it’s happening.
Drucker isn’t ruling out the possibility that covid really could be raising the risk of type 1 diabetes in children, or that this risk may have gotten worse between waves of the pandemic or with the emergence of variants like Omicron. But without stronger evidence, it remains possible that there’s no link to the virus itself.
Fear monger much? Is it possible that the numbers are skewed because most the kids admitted for care bc of COVID are overweight/obese and the diabetes is bc they are at home eating junk instead of in school eating better food in 2020. I think you can blame the lockdowns for this.
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