'The underlying message is that their life is less important than other people's,' says sbernsteinmd, a Utah doctor whose viral tweets about her own COVID risk have rallied the chronically ill.
and sent the tweet after 11 p.m. about a week ago.
Now thousands of people have shared their own stories about living through the pandemic with chronic illness — and about coping with remarks from media personalities and even health officials that minimize the human toll of COVID-19 because deaths and hospitalizations disproportionately affect people who are old or have underlying medical conditions.
Those attempts to minimize COVID-19 incorrectly suggest that the virus is high-risk for only a small number of people, Bernstein said. Butof serious illness from the coronavirus. One reason Bernstein said she included her picture is that she looks healthy and young, contrary to images that people may have in their minds — that chronically ill patients have such low quality of life anyway that they aren’t worth protecting. Bernstein’s heart was damaged when she came down with the viral illness mono as a teenager on the cross-country running team.
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