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"In the Rush to Return to 'Normal," What Happens to the Vulnerable?

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Sarah Wildman, "In the Rush to Return to 'Normal,' What Happens to the Vulnerable?

“There is always a sense that this is a very tiny minority of the population and that you are asking an unreasonable number of people to make a sacrifice for a very small group,” said Dr. Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, an infectious disease specialist at Emory University. “When you look at the definitions of what makes someone more vulnerable to Covid,” she explained, it is a significant proportion of the population “that we essentially are failing to offer protections to.”