1/ This why we are all social distancing: To protect the ill and immunocompromised.
What might be a cold or bronchitis for a healthy person can turn into walking pneumonia for others.
What makes one person sick can kill someone else.
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What might be a cold or bronchitis for a healthy person can turn into walking pneumonia for others.
What makes one person sick can kill someone else.
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2/ For Texans with compromised immune systems — or those with sick loved ones — the precautions being taken in the face of the new coronavirus are high stakes, and in some cases extreme. bit.ly/2IVnUti #coronavirus #covid19 #covid_19
3/ Shannon Huehlefeld is not letting anyone in or out of her home. She was spraying her mail with Lysol. She bought a UVC bulb that can sterilize a surface in 30 minutes.
Her husband is 63 and diabetic. He has a history of lung issues and pneumonia. bit.ly/2IVnUti
Her husband is 63 and diabetic. He has a history of lung issues and pneumonia. bit.ly/2IVnUti
4/ Shelby Chiles, 42, has neuro-Behcet’s, a rare autoimmune disease.
She wears nasal cannulas and relies on external oxygen supplies.
Her husband works as a high school teacher in Frisco ISD — “essentially a petri dish,” she said. bit.ly/2IVnUti
She wears nasal cannulas and relies on external oxygen supplies.
Her husband works as a high school teacher in Frisco ISD — “essentially a petri dish,” she said. bit.ly/2IVnUti
5/ Renee Brown of Corinth is in her 50s, but she has what her doctor calls an “immature” immune system, like it was a child.
She has aplastic anemia, an autoimmune disease in which the bone marrow produces insufficient blood cells. bit.ly/2IVnUti
She has aplastic anemia, an autoimmune disease in which the bone marrow produces insufficient blood cells. bit.ly/2IVnUti
6/ She's not scared of the virus.
It’s other people she frets for more.
Some friends don’t take illness seriously.
“People don’t understand ... They think about colds and flus in terms of things people get over.” bit.ly/2IVnUti
It’s other people she frets for more.
Some friends don’t take illness seriously.
“People don’t understand ... They think about colds and flus in terms of things people get over.” bit.ly/2IVnUti
7/ Tessa Phillips has had a weak immune system ever since she underwent a bone marrow transplant as a teenager.
What might be a cold or bronchitis for a healthy person turns into walking pneumonia for her. bit.ly/2IVnUti #coronavirus #covid19 #covid_19
What might be a cold or bronchitis for a healthy person turns into walking pneumonia for her. bit.ly/2IVnUti #coronavirus #covid19 #covid_19
8/ "You either have doomsday preppers buying all the toilet paper, or you’ve got people who are just out and about like nothing’s happening. All of us should be somewhere in that sweet spot in the middle ... But 6 feet away from each other.” bit.ly/2IVnUti
9/ Bette Swann is 14 years in remission from lung cancer.
She was never a smoker, but she has half a lung missing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease & asthma, as well as the autoimmune disease lupus. She worries about what the virus could do to her.
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She was never a smoker, but she has half a lung missing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease & asthma, as well as the autoimmune disease lupus. She worries about what the virus could do to her.
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10/10 Read more here. bit.ly/2IVnUti
