The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on those on the frontlines and COVID-19 patients. However, this focus ignores those with chronic health needs and disabilities.
People with these conditions are left unable to continue their care or to seek care for new exacerbations. People are avoiding the ER and dying at home.
Needed surgeries are postponed leaving patients with continuing pain and disability. And for many, a fear exists of not only acquiring COVID-19, but of being denied a ventilator due to prejudicial views about the value of disabled lives.
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