Schooley said the range of risk can vary greatly even within the same disease. “If we make this too complicated we could find ourselves slowing down this process instead of speeding it up," Schooley said. This month the American Diabetes Association sent a letter to the CDC Immunization Advisory Committee urging the agency to include Type 1 diabetes in its list of high-risk diseases, saying in part, "It would be problematic for any state to differentiate between Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes in their prioritization of access for vaccines." People with Type 1 diabetes are 3.9 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 and are three times more likely to die from the virus than people with Type 2. according to the letter.