In his recent article in The Atlantic, Ed Yong posed a poignant question: “What does society owe immunocompromised people?”
During the massive surge in COVID cases in the fall and winter of 2020, I remember seeing commercial after commercial proclaiming that we were all in this together. Images of nurses and doctors with haggard faces and weeks’ old personal protection equipment flashed on screen. In November 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as part of the White House COVID task force, stated, “We can mitigate this virus and stop this spread together.”
Most people understood that protecting one another with layered protection strategies like masking and social distancing was essential to doing your part to help the broader community.
