"The large number of diabetes deaths for a second year in a row is certainly a cause for alarm.”

Dr. Paul Hsu, an epidemiologist at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, regarding the increase in diabetes deaths over the last two years, with more than 100,000 Americans dying from diabetes in both 2020 and 2021. About 11 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes. (Reuters — Jan. 31, 2022)