Our first guest post comes from journalist, Aileen O’Reilly, from Dublin, who has lived with type 1 diabetes for 38 years, who shares a really important #LanguageMatters lesson and why fear tactics in diabetes do not work.

There has been a lot of concern, anxiety and questions about coronavirus COVID-19 in the diabetes community and lots of our organizations have responded quickly to these questions so I thought I would collate some of them.