Covid-19 outbreak and management people with diabetes

Covid-19 outbreak and management of people with diabetes

The head of cardiology said, “My fear is a number of those human beings is death at home due to the fact they are too scared to visit the hospital.” There is likewise a problem that human beings with strokes and appendicitis aren’t seeking timely treatment. Shortages of scientific elements have impacted human beings with numerous conditions. Covid-19 with Diabetes instances have increased.

The fitness effects of SUDs (for example, cardiovascular diseases, breathing diseases, type 2 diabetes, immunosuppression, and important apprehensive gadget despair, and psychiatric disorders) and the related environmental challenges (e.g., housing instability, unemployment, and criminal justice involvement) increase the hazard for COVID-19. COVID-19 public fitness mitigation measures (i.e., bodily distancing, quarantine, and isolation) can exacerbate loneliness, intellectual fitness signs and symptoms, withdrawal signs and symptoms, and mental trauma. Confinement rules, unemployment, and monetary austerity measures at some stage in and following the pandemic can affect the illicit drug marketplace and drug use patterns.
Childhood vaccination
UNICEF estimates that 117 million kids throughout 37 international locations won’t obtain their immunizations in time to save you a measles outbreak. Pediatricians in the United States are concerned about the years of vaccination charges. In April, the CDC pronounced that 400,000 fewer doses of measles vaccine were ordered in 2020 compared to the same time ultimate 12 months.
SMALLPOX VACCINATION – PREVENTION OF VIRUS INFECTION

Diabetes is an immune-compromised state. Any infection, however trivial, would blow up. A small injury in the toe caused while clipping the nail would develop into a severe foot infection and, in some cases, it may result in foot amputation. In diabetics, any infection will be magnified. “A mole will become a mountain.”
Coming to the coronavirus infection, by this time, the viral infection should have spread and affected many people in our country, as this is the scenario in other countries. My concept for this not happening is, most of our Indian population would have had smallpox vaccination at a younger age. This vaccine is given to protect the population from smallpox infection caused by a deadly virus. This vaccination has protected Indians from H1N1 infection and SARS infection due to cross-immunity. Similarly, smallpox vaccination would protect the Indian population from any virus infection. The exception always rules in Medicine.
The answer is whether the smallpox vaccination given in yesteryears protects our population from corona infection (the incidence is not very high compared to other populations who never took smallpox vaccination). To prove this concept, smallpox vaccination protects from corona virus infection can be assessed by finding out whether people who are positive for coronavirus had smallpox vaccination or vice versa.
I hasten to add that we should not be complacent and should follow the advice given by the Government of India.
Dr. V. Seshiah
Md, FRCP, DSc, DSc, DSc (hony)
https://www.diabetesasia.org/magazine/category/covid19/
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