The Takeaway

How Immunocompromised People Are Navigating the Pandemic


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On Tuesday night —  during his first State of the Union address — President Joe Biden talked about a return to normal. 

Under these new guidelines, most Americans in most of the country can now go mask free. And based on projections, more of the country will reach across that point across the next couple of weeks.Thanks to the progress we have made in the past year, Covid-19 no longer need control our lives.

But for millions of Americans that are immunocompromised, COVID-19 still does control their lives. With the U.S. dropping COVID measures like masking, some immunocompromised people are feeling abandoned or ignored, as the rest of the country moves on from the pandemic. 

We spoke with Dorry Segev, a professor of surgery and population health at NYU Langone, and Ed Yong, a staff writer at The Atlantic, about what this stage of the pandemic has meant for immunocompromised people.

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