Anybody Read/Listen to Arden's Day/Juicebox podcast? You should probably stop. They're spreading misinformation about T1D and COVID-19

Tolstoy ahead, be warned.

So, I'm on the admin team for a few of the decent-sized T1D Facebook groups (total combined membership >50k people). This week, I started seeing a post from the Arden's Day blog getting submitted over and over, often with comments like "Can this be true??!?!" and "OMG, This is great news!"

The blog post that was getting submitted is titled: "The CoV-19 Infection Appears To Be Unusual Among Patients With Type 1 Diabetes". Apparently, Scott (who runs the blog/podcast) found a submission from the prestigious journal (sarcasm italics) "Medical Hypotheses" from back in April that theorizes that people with T1D may have some sort of immunity/resistance to the virus that causes COVID-19. Needless to say, this is complete and utter bullshit. The stories of people who have had it (posted here and elsewhere) are clear evidence to the contrary.

In fact, the NHS in England did a HUGE study that was published in May, showing that people with T1D are 3x as likely to die of COVID (if they need to be hospitalized) as a person with no health conditions.

To make matters worse, Scott presents this as being authoritative because it's available in the NCBI, which is a NIH-run database of anything medical-related that gets published basically anywhere in the world. It's not prestigious. It's intended for physicians and other scientists who (presumably) have the ability to evaluate sources and dismiss irrelevant info, not the general public.

I contacted Scott and requested that he remove the post or at least add a disclaimer, and he basically told me to go pound sand.

Juicebox podcast and the Arden's Day blog are sponsored by some heavy-hitters in the diabetes space- Dexcom and Insulet (Omnipod). With a platform as big as he has, Scott has a duty to the T1D community to vet his sources and not publish old, disproven theories. What he's doing may get someone killed. It's irresponsible, unethical, and potentially deadly. Clearly, he cares more about getting clicks on his blog than he does about the lives of people with T1D.

PS- I've already contacted Insulet and Dexcom about this issue, but feel free to do so yourself if you find this as infuriating as I do.

tl;dr: Juicebox Podcast/Arden's Day is pushing old, disproven, dangerous theories about T1D and COVID as fact. It's clearly no longer a reliable source of info (if it ever was).