New diabetes cases linked to covid-19

Covid-19 used to be thought of as just a respiratory disease. But it’s triggering diabetes in many patients—and may have spawned an entirely new kind of diabetes whose implications are not yet understood.

I used dozens of interviews and scores of medical studies to investigate this little-reported consequence of the novel coronavirus, highlight patients whose lives have been changed by their new diagnoses, and track how researchers and doctors are tackling coronavirus-linked diabetes.