The other pandemic threatening lives and livelihoods

Most recent discussions about public health center around the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, another pandemic is also threatening lives and livelihoods—the pandemic of type 2 diabetes.

According to a March 2020 report published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 462 million people, or 6.28 percent of the world’s population, had type 2 diabetes in 2017. More than 1 million deaths worldwide result from type 2 diabetes each year, the report said, making it the ninth leading cause of mortality.…