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If you look diligently, you may find commentary that Type 1 diabetes is an immunologic attack on the pancreatic islet cells.

Maybe in "Turtles All the Way Down" or elsewhere in my reading I have seen this, with the hypothesis that our vigorous immunisation schedules have induced the rise (before Covid) of T1DM incidence.

There have been trials of immune suppression in new onset T1DM, with brief remission.

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Yes, there are a bunch of studies out there which I've now come across. Many of them involve adult onset, which doesn't necessarily apply in our case, but it definitely looks like there's a connection.

New-onset Type 1 Diabetes after COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination - Masahiro Yano

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9107966/

"Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 also induces type 1 diabetes; however, only a limited number of reports are available on cases of new-onset diabetes after COVID-19 vaccination."

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I should also add that there being "a limited number of reports" makes sense, since we never reported ours. I'm sure there are many more cases that were not reported.

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