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🔴For the clinically vulnerable, the threat of Covid hasn’t gone away, writes Lauren Libbert

With restrictions now lifted, what will life be like for the 3.7 million people for whom coronavirus could prove fatal?

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🗣️“I accept my life has limitations but it feels as if nobody has to consider other people in this move to lift all restrictions,” says Diana Henry, The Telegraph’s cookery writer

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Diana Henry was diagnosed with vasculitis last year, a serious condition in which the immune system attacks healthy blood vessels

“With Covid, I’m between a rock and a hard place. Unless my immune system is suppressed, I risk having another flare-up, and they can be fatal”

Sarah Hemmings, 34, from Norwich was diagnosed with highly active relapsing multiple sclerosis in 2019.

🗣️“I can’t return to the job that I love and now the restrictions are completely lifting, life is going to become even more dangerous and isolating”

🔴Hemmings is angry at the government’s “all or nothing” approach to the virus and thinks free tests should still be available for everyone
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Boris Johnson may insist that we now have sufficient levels of immunity to justify lifting restrictions...

➡️But for the 3.7 million clinically extremely vulnerable people in the UK, Covid is as big a threat to their life now as it ever was, writes Lauren Libbert

💊Treatments so far for clinically extremely vulnerable people in the UK include antiviral medications such as Paxlovid and Molnupiravir for those who test positive for Covid
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But Susan Walsh, CEO of Immunodeficiency UK, would like there to be a prevention plan for the vulnerable that includes a rollout of AstraZeneca’s antibody injection Evusheld

“Sixteen other countries, including the US and Israel, are offering Evusheld to immunocompromised people"

🗣️Walsh says, “It’s not about taking tests away which are a lifeline for our community or taking extra precautions – it should be about giving extra support.”

“Anxiety is so high in our community right now,” adds Walsh

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