The Immuna Compromise and the Elderly

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A lot of le were freaking out about how this would affect the immuno compromise. How much of america is a muna compromise? When we look at populations that i think get kind of typically thought of as severely immuna compromise. People like my parents, anybody over the age of 80, that you really do have a higher risk.

A Florida judge ended the federal government’s mass transit mask mandate this week. Vox’s Dylan Scott explains if mask mandates are over forever and Dr. Kavita Patel explores how much of a difference that would make.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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