Claim: Diabetes is linked to a quarter of pandemic deaths in England according to NHS statistics.
Fact-check: Daily Express diabetes and coronavirus deaths headline is misleading - Full Fact
Verdict: about a quarter of covid-19 patients who died in england hospital also had diabetes, but this does not mean that diabetes was definitely linked to all these deaths. this cannot be concluded from these nhs statistics.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Kate Lewis
Date published: 2020-05-22T00:00:00