Figure 1.
Human transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Five out of 49 COVID-19 infected individuals would be diabetic in the US. There is a lack of routine clinical criteria for the diagnosis of individuals with insulin resistance or adipose tissue dysfunction. These entities are accompanied by chronic low-grade subclinical inflammation perhaps acting as the underlying mechanism enhancing a cytokine storm hyperinflammatory state that triggers multiorgan failure in COVID-19 infected individuals.