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@johnbishop

Hello @pearl3030, Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. The Diabetes.org website has some information that I think answers your question.

How COVID-19 Impacts People with Diabetes: https://www.diabetes.org/coronavirus-covid-19/how-coronavirus-impacts-people-with-diabetes

Mayo Clinic News Network also has some informative and helpful articles and videos here if you are looking for additional information:
https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/category/covid-19/
May I ask how you found Mayo Clinic Connect (we are glad you found us!)?

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Thanks, @johnbishop I had wondered about this also. The only thing I had seen was that people with diabetes are more apt to have heart conditions which can be problematic if they contract COVID. This article is more explanative.

I do not remember where I read this unfortunately, but I did read somewhere that although people who are on immunosuppressants are more apt to contract COVID, if they have it their outcome is not worse than people not on immunosuppressants.
This is from a small study in Italy:
https://www.hepmag.com/article/immunosuppressants-liver-transplant-recipients-may-increase-covid19-risk
There is still so much to be learned about COVID and much of what is published contradicts other published studies.
JK

That is helpful thank you. I found by searching online google for trying to understand more about what the stages of covid are for different types of patients as I have seen a lot in terms of the symptoms but not much has been in the media on what specifically happens to patients once they’ve been hospitalized aside from needing to go on ventilators. Yet recently saw something about blood clots, amputations, covid toes and that made me wonder more about how my 10 yo daughter who suffers from neuropathy/ethromyalgia would be effected if she contracts covid.