In 2019, diabetes was the seventh-leading cause of death in America and claimed more than 87,000 lives, reflecting a long-running failure to address the illness and leaving many more vulnerable when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, creating new hurdles to accessing care.
Since then, the nation’s toll from diabetes has increased sharply, surpassing 100,000 deaths in each of the last two years and representing a new record-high level, according to a Reuters analysis of provisional death data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Diabetes-related deaths surged 17% in 2020 and 15% in 2021 compared to the prepandemic level in 2019. That excluded deaths directly attributed to COVID-19. The CDC concurred with the Reuters analysis and said additional deaths from 2021 are still being tallied.
There is some evidence SA is about to plateau as BA.2 becomes dominant.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/1487919837670219781?cxt=HHwWioC5qbDNk6YpAAAA
Rut roh…
Guardian Live, a few hours ago…
- The Japanese trading and pharmaceutical company Kowa Co’s anti-parasite drug ivermectin showed an “antiviral effect” against Omicron and other variants of coronavirus in joint non-clinical research.
“Non-clinical research”
Hcq did this too
Edit: Ponied while grunching.
That graph has BA.3 on it. The fuck is BA.3?
Arrrrrrrggggghhhhh
It’s an orange line not a red line, which suggests it’s less serious.
Yeah would be great news but given all the work done so far pretty skeptical this amounts to anything.
Another Omicron mutation, but AFAIK not one anyone is very worried about and has been around for at least a month
Yeah I got my tests on Friday, meant to mention it. Kudos to the government doing the bare minimum correctly. Hopefully they will allow more tests.
Hope these tests keep some people from unknowingly spreading Covid because they didn’t get tested. 
COVID isn’t a terrorist because it’s not brown. Duh.
Did they ever actually retire the TERROR ALERT system of are we still on yellow alert or whatever?
ded for like 10 years now
It would be pretty damned useful. Mexico actually comes pretty close to this sort of system, complete anatomically-impossible mascot Susana Distancia:
They should probably bring back the terrorism alerts for domestic fascists, but that’s not gonna happen.
But is that “with diabetes” or “of diabetes”?
This is actually a far more interesting question than the covid stuff. Hard to think of a direct way that diabetes kills you outside of a few exceptions.
Pack of 25 N95s we ordered two weeks ago showed up while I was gone.