Posted on 08/16/2021 5:33:37 PM PDT by bitt
How the pandemic laid bare America’s diabetes crisis
COVID-19 has torn a particularly lethal path through the 1 in 10 Americans with diabetes, including many who never caught the virus. That's because when the pandemic hit, people with the chronic disease were already in worse shape than in years.
It took the deadly disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic to expose a deeper, more intractable U.S. public-health crisis: For more than a decade, the world’s richest nation has been losing the battle against diabetes.
Long before the pandemic, Kate Herrin was among the millions of Americans struggling to control their diabetes.
Her problems often stemmed from her government-subsidized medical insurance. Doctors routinely rejected her Medicaid plan, and she repeatedly ran out of the test strips she needed to manage her daily insulin injections. She cycled in and out of emergency rooms with dangerously high blood-sugar levels, or hyperglycemia.
Then COVID-19 hit. Herrin – poor and living alone – rarely left her apartment, ordering fast-food delivery instead of risking the grocery store. She stopped going in for regular lab tests. She had a harder time than ever securing medical supplies. Her health deteriorated further.
On Dec. 15, Herrin and Elicia Heaston, her best friend, were swapping messages on Facebook midday when Herrin abruptly dropped off the conversation. Heaston called Herrin’s phone and got no answer. When a few more hours passed without any word, Heaston and her husband drove from their home in rural West Alexandria, Ohio, to Herrin’s apartment nearby and pounded on the door. No lights were on, but they could hear the television.
Heaston called 911. When firefighters arrived, they found the 42-year-old dead on the bathroom floor. Herrin’s rescue dogs, Honey and Sugar, were lying quietly next to her.
The coroner attributed the heart attack that killed
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pretty good info, somewhat slanted...
I call BS on this story, there is no way she could not get Meds or Doctors visits with Medicaid and sometimes people in Medicaid also are on Medicare.
This sounds like a pure propaganda piece.
Could be a problem.
The major cost for insulin is the fact that current product requires refrigeration and the product can not be made at home. Two technologies / efforts will significantly change that model.
1) there is an opensource effort to enable people to manufacture insulin on their own. It appears that the cost of self manufacture will be less than $30 per month.
2) Oramed is in the clinical trial phase of a oral form / pill for insulin.
Agree..total bs
I also want to know her weight and other conditions. Did she even try to help herself or depend on Pharma alone.
Maybe send Fauci a Thank You card
Still no details about ACE1 down-regulating and the related increase in ACE2 expression.
We don’t know what type of Diabetes she even had, I or II. That is important also.
ya, we both know there was a certain agenda throughout the piece...
Herrin’s rescue dogs, Honey and Sugar, were lying quietly next to her.
what a load of fearmongering propaganda.
remember the hysteria revolving about getting the vax into certain “ ethnic and tribal populations “?
Libloather :" Could be a problem. "
Yes it could be the problem,
but I am more concerned about "High Fructose corn syrup"
which the body stores as fat, because the body can't adequately digest it.
It is found increasingly in more and more products because it's a lot cheaper than regular refined sugar.
We are the most obese country in the world now I saw on another post- so no doubt type 2 diabetes is sky high. I think it is by design. They don’t tell people to eat healthy and get exercise when the pandemic hits- they tell them to stay in the house and order in on grub hub and get fat- making it easier to succumb to the virus or a myriad of other health problems. Average weight gain for an adult American during the past year is 29 lbs!!!! That’s crazy big weight gain!
Cut the processed carbs and walk a half-hour every day. Using the legs is the best way to use up blood sugar.
You’re welcome
Glimepiride is a pill that is reasonable in cost.
+1
Yes and one of it’s side effects is Congestive Heart Failure.
That’s part of the plan.
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