Challenges of routine diabetes care during Covid-19 era: A systematic search and narrative review

In December 2019, an unprecedented number of patients with pneumonia of unknown cause presented in adult individuals from Wuhan, China (1). High transmissibility of the virus, especially among asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic carriers (2), alongside with the apparent absence of any cross-protective immunity from related viral infections (3), has now resulted in a worldwide outbreak, now classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (4). As of August 13, 2020, there has been more than 20.5 million confirmed cases globally, and around 750,000 fatalities (5).

Source: Primary Care Diabetes - August 2, 2021 Category: Primary Care Authors: Mohammad Mohseni, Shiler Ahmadi, Saber Azami-Aghdash, Haleh Mousavi Isfahani, Ahmad Moosavi, Mozhgan Fardid, Manal Etemadi, Fatemeh Ghazanfari Source Type: research