An immunocompromised person in my family got COVID for the first time, AT THE HOSPITAL because they stopped requiring ANY PRECAUTIONS. No masks, no nothing.
They can't avoid the hospital so that means they'll just have to roll the dice each time they go?
What a cruel world.
Immunocompromised means the vaccine doesn't work as well. So what the current US policy says is equivalent to "you're on your own" good luck! 😡😡😡
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I caught covid twice in a medical setting while recovering from my double lung transplant in a nursing facility. And the second time I got over it (having to go to the hospital and get monoclonal antibody treatment infusions) I caught norovirus a few days later so back to the hospital.
It's so exhausting navigating an immunocompromised life.
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