For people with underlying health conditions, the coronavirus presents ‘all the ingredients’ for danger
An infection from the coronavirus can be a formidable threat to anyone. But it is especially pernicious for people whose health is vulnerable, even in the best of conditions.
For Andrea Pietrowsky, that means her husband is not coming home.
The couple’s daughter, 5½-year-old Louisa, has heart and lung conditions. Andrea’s husband, Tom, is a dietician at a Detroit hospital and the family’s income earner. If he picks up the virus at work and then unknowingly bring it home, he could get Louisa sick. And so he left for work last Monday with plans to not come back.
If he were to come home before the threat of the virus passed, Andrea said, “that’s too risky for Louisa,” who spent the first seven months of her life in the hospital and used to rely on a ventilator to breathe. “She is going to want to cuddle and lay down at night and
