Being caught in the perfect storm of a diabetes epidemic and the COVID‐19 pandemic: What should we do for our patients?

The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has overwhelmed the whole world since the first case was reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The infection, called acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), induces various symptoms, including fever and respiratory and enteric symptoms, but some people are asymptomatic.1,2 Although the fatality rate of COVID‐19 is lower than that of SARS‐CoV‐1 and middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS‐CoV), the absolute number of fatalities due to COVID‐19 is quite high because of the high prevalence of the viral infection.