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Article origination WFYI-FM Farah Yousry/Side Effects Public Media Farah Yousry - Side Effects Public Media Economic problems caused by COVID-19 hit diabetics especially hard. The American Diabetes Association says about a quarter of people with the disease are tapping savings, loans or stimulus checks to buy insulin. And some are taking big risks to get the life-saving drug. It’s been over six months since Cody Wessel lost his retail job due to the pandemic. He says he’s been terrified “because we are living on the kindness of strangers and kindness from our parents to pay basic bills....

COVID-19 And Diabetes Can Be A Dangerous Mix Article origination WFYI-FM Farah Yousry/Side Effects Public Media FARAH YOUSRY - Side Effects Public Media Agatha Walston leads a busy life. She’s a nurse in southern Indiana and a single mother of two young kids. She’s kept control of her type 1 diabetes for over 28 years — partly through a healthy lifestyle. “I would rather snack on veggies than trash food,” the Clarksville woman says. But when the pandemic hit, she feared that the control she maintained for so long could be unraveling. “I told my kids, I said, ‘Okay, there's this ...