Well, for one, both of the chronic illnesses you mentioned are risk factors for long COVID. For those who get long COVID and who have these pre-existing chronic illnesses, we can see exacerbations. For diabetes you could see an exacerbation in the acute phase, and there could be issues with glucose management more long term. With mental illness, we certainly see a worsening of symptoms. Of course, this is multifactorial, but certainly there's an impact from just not being able to recover. People find it very discouraging. When you compound that with issues of sleep, for example, all of those are ingredients for deterioration in pre-existing mental illness.
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