The Coronavirus May Cause Fat Cells to Miscommunicate, Leading To Diabetes

 

Dante Robles 

1/5/22

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The Coronavirus May Cause Fat Cells to Miscommunicate, Leading To Diabetes

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-diabetes-fat-cells-blood-sugar 

According to the article, Coronavirus may be causing fat cells in some people to miscommunicate, leading them to turn into diabetes. This(Coronavirus) has caused more than 3800 people to develop high blood sugar even though they were not pre-diabetic before. Some of the symptoms they are facing are loss of taste and smell, very bad head colds, body aches, muscle spasms, fatigue, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, and lastly dehydration. This has been happening to people in their 30s and 40s, so pretty young overall. It has left people with a 15 times higher chance of incubation and 3.6 times higher chance of death. It is not known what is overall doing this but some doctors are saying the pancreas is the main culprit. It is harming the pancreas cells that make insulin to miscommunicate and make blood sugar rise dramatically.

The thing about this article is it's saying that people are getting diabetes when receiving COVID. Even though this is a horrible thing it should open more peoples eyes to getting the vaccine. This would have a pretty good effect on society so that eventually we can go back to some sort of normalcy. Another reason it should have a somewhat good effect on society is the risks of dying and incubation are a lot higher than a normal COVID receiver. This would also make more people get one of the three coronavirus vaccines which would help our society a lot. By getting the vaccine you are benefiting yourself to be safe and not harm as many people that you are close with, for example, family and friends.

Overall I found the article very informational because it taught me about coronavirus causing diabetes which is a very scary thing to go through. Personally I don't have anything to suggest to the author because I thought this article was very well written. The authors strengths in this article were leading the reader into the article and making every paragraph meaningful to the whole article. The weakness you could say was not giving a too detailed conclusion/ending. Besides this, this was a pretty good and informational article.