re: Covid vaccine, take it or not

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are in our early 60s with emphysema. Otherwise healthy.

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I’m just not sure how you can so casually list emphysema as if that’s just a minor condition, especially when it relates to protection from a respiratory virus.

I mean it’s one thing to have something extremely common and not extremely problematic like a little hypertension, which is often one of those preexisting conditions that people erroneously use as evidence the virus isn’t a big deal. It’s another to have a condition that is actually associated with a much higher risk of severe outcomes as it directly affects systems that the virus attacks.

In other words, between your age and your specific pre-existing condition, you are probably the type of person that is at much higher risk and should get the vaccine before most people.