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22-05-2020 How Diabetics Can Avoid the Deadly Consequences of COVID-19

Dr.Firoz Biswas            M.D.(AM) How Diabetics Can Avoid the Deadly Consequences of COVID-19 COVID-19 is a deadly virus that targets the lungs of infected patients and causes severe respiratory distress. It is lung specific, meaning the virus contains only cell receptors for lung cells. This makes your lungs sticky which means there is a lot of breathing effort during the breath fight. The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose, mouth, or eyes when you touch them with your hands or an infected cough or sneeze that enters your body through these three openings. The secret to preventing infection is to avoid touching your face and avoiding close contact with other people, because you never know who might be infected. People with type 2 diabetes (T2D), high blood pressure or obesity are more likely to get seriously ill or actually die if they are infected with Covid-19. However, a recent study published in the Journal o...