It’s hard hearing everyone say this isn’t a concern for healthy people.
Two years ago my husband, Brian, was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, a condition that causes progressive muscle loss, most importantly to the ones that help you breathe. His immune system is strong, but his lungs are not. A severe respiratory infection could cause permanent damage to his already-weak breathing, requiring him to use a ventilator, or worse.
As New York City reveals its first cases, the effects on the city are visible, but barely: a few more masks on still-crowded public transit; well-stocked drugstores with a handful of completely empty shelves. Our own family’s practical response to the virus feels mild. We can only do what many others are doing to prepare right now: more hand-washing, buying a stash of Mucinex, rounding up a few bottles of hand sanitizer from purses.
Worrying about my husband is nothing new, but the coronavirus has turned up the volume from a background hum to distractingly loud. Although there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the fatality rate, there is one thing everyone agrees on: It is concerningly high in groups with
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