A panel of 17 diabetes specialists from around the world suspect that there is a two-way relationship between diabetes and COVID-19. In a letter to The New England Journal of Medicine, they write that while experts know that having diabetes can increase a person’s risk of severe COVID-19, some evidence shows that people may develop diabetes for the first time as a result of the infection.The specialists note that COVID-19 can cause severe metabolic complications in people with diabetes, necessitating treatment with exceptionally high doses of insulin.They also cite a case report from a hospital in Singapore of a previously healthy man who developed diabetic complications after contracting COVID-19.In addition, a study in 2010 of 39 patients.