Mr. Webber, the data we have are quite early on. We have data that unfortunately doesn't distinguish between whether patients had type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes. The research doesn't give us well-segmented data in terms of how many complications the patients had and perhaps what their ages were, and so on.
However, what we see from countries that had the pandemic earlier than we did and therefore are farther along in their journey is that when somebody who already has diabetes catches COVID, they're more likely to experience that cytokine storm that can result in the type of COVID that needs hospitalization; they are much more likely to end up in the ICU than somebody without diabetes and consequently, they're more likely to experience a death as a result of it. We need to learn a lot more about that in order to fully understand what that means.
We're trying to send Canadians with diabetes a clear message, that they don't necessarily need to be afraid right off the bat, that they just need to take precautions, as do all Canadians, in order to reduce the risk that they'll catch COVID-19. However, it's important to recognize that diabetes does predispose people to a greater likelihood of a poor outcome if they do catch it.