Medical experts look at possible link between Covid-19 and new diabetes cases
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, health experts are learning more about Covid-19 long-haulers. Long-haulers are patients who experience lingering symptoms from the virus after acute infection. Some experience headaches, dizziness or even issues with their hearts. Medical experts say some COVID-19 patients are even developing new cases of diabetes.
“We’ve been focused for so long simply on acute Covid,” said Dr. Edward Michelson, the chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. “And dealing with the numbers of patients, and taking care of them, finding the best therapeutics for dealing with acute COVID infection. Now that the numbers are largely coming down, we’re starting to see a number of patients who are long-haulers.”
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Promotoras Fabiola Rodriguez and Lizeth Carrillo speak with a woman waiting in line outside Tamales Lupita on Dec. 12, 2020. At first, Rodriguez felt a little bit of fear going out during the pandemic, but we know the community needs this information, and we the promotoras are here for that. Because if we don t do it, we don t know who s going to do it.
Promotoras de salud, community health workers, help spread public health information in remote, under-resourced border communities. The coronavirus pandemic has made their outreach more challenging and more important than ever.
On a chilly Saturday morning in early December, a long line formed outside Tamales Lupita, a popular spot on the outskirts of El Paso County. People stood, bundled up in jackets and face masks, and waited to place their orders for tamales or burritos to go.
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