<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 11, 2020, at 04:21, Rich Kulawiec <<a href="mailto:rsk@gsp.org" class="">rsk@gsp.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Diabetes as a consequence of COVID-19</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> </span><a href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-diabetes-consequence-covid-.html" style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-diabetes-consequence-covid-.html</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">IMHO, diabetes isn’t scary enough for most people because most people know people who live with it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I describe the following two COVID-related papers to people, they usually say, “holy shit” (even the people who don’t swear!):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Autoimmune Encephalitis Presenting with Acute Excited Catatonia in a 40-Year-Old Male Patient with Covid-19</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160770v1" class="">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160770v1</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">COVID-19–associated Acute Hemorrhagic Necrotizing Encephalopathy</div><div class=""><a href="https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020201187" class="">https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020201187</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I basically stopped reading edge case papers at that point because nothing was going to top that last one.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 11, 2020, at 06:05, Nick Moffitt <<a href="mailto:nick@zork.net" class="">nick@zork.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">A FOAF just told a group of us that she had exactly the same situation, also in West London, but now—surprise!—she has COVID-induced glaucoma!<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t normally get flus either. What’s really interesting about eyes (and brains and testes and ovaries) is that they’re immune privileged areas where even RNA viruses can exist in infectious form for quite a long time as I’m sure Rich could tell you. Famously, ebola can remain infectious in semen for *years*.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ebola-virus-can-last-in-semen-for-565-days/" class="">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ebola-virus-can-last-in-semen-for-565-days/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-private-place-where-hiv-zika-and-ebola-hide/" class="">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-private-place-where-hiv-zika-and-ebola-hide/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Deirdre</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>