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Doctors put him in the ICU after saving him from a coma and told him that he had type 1 diabetes, which could have killed him.

Rubino is a diabetes researcher and chair of metabolic and bariatric surgery at King’s College London.

The diabetes expert is currently collecting data from other patients in an effort to explain how the virus might trigger the onset of diabetes.

The onset of diabetes from COVID-19 might happen until several months after recovery.

Aside from Buelna’s case, Reuters also details the case of a 12-year-old boy who experienced fatigue symptoms this past summer after a possible asymptomatic COVID-19 infection.

Atticus tested negative for coronavirus in the ICU, but he wasn’t tested for antibodies that could prove he had a prior case of COVID-19.

Separately, the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles said that the percentage of newly diagnosed type 2 patients who arrived in diabetic ketoacidosis has nearly doubled from March through August compared to the same period in 2018 and 2019

Doctors there are also investigating the links between the increased number of diabetes cases and COVID-19