While there's concern for the elderly catching coronavirus, there's another high-risk group that has nothing to do with age.
Some of them are young and most of them may not look sick at all. Millions of them are living with a compromised immune system.
It's estimated that about 3% of the adult US population is immunosuppressed.That's roughly 7 million people living with a weakened immune system today.
Some of them have a disease that's weakened their immune systems. Others are taking immunosuppressants for cancer or organ transplants. They may not look sick, but they have an invisible disease
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Courtney Hodge is religious about cleaning everything she's touched because anything could affect her diminished respiratory function.
The 37-year-old has asthma and several autoimmune disorders such as Graves' disease, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. She gets sick easily, she said.
"It's being hypervigilant over everything that I touch because you don't know who else has touched it," Hodge said. Read More