Type I diabetes

For her, though, Covid still poses a real threat: Fell-Davis has Type I diabetes, putting her at higher risk of hospitalization and long-term complications from illness.

The children around him perked up and leaned in to listen, so Fell-Davis stood up and explained to the class that she had Type I diabetes.

“Look, there are millions of other Americans who are not on Medicare, including 200,000 young people with Type I diabetes who need insulin to save their lives. Let’s finish the job this time. Let’s cap the cost of insulin for everybody at $35.”

Muma initially thought his days of playing sports were over when the doctor told him he had Type I diabetes.

He thinks his Type I diabetes — he was diagnosed at age 13 — also contributed to his shift to liberalism, because it led him to empathize with other people’s pain.