Hospitals use a lottery to allocate scarce COVID drugs for the immunocompromised
So far the government has distributed about 300,000 doses of Evusheld, a new drug that protects against COVID-19. Some 7 million Americans could benefit from the drug right away.
Dr. Vivian Cheung takes steroids to manage a rare genetic disease. The drugs suppress her immune system, which puts her at high risk of getting very sick from COVID-19. It also means that her body didn't really make antibodies in response to two shots she got of the Moderna vaccine.
Cheung is a pediatrician and research scientist. Before the pandemic, from her clinic at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland to her lab at the University of Michigan. Now, she hasn't been to her lab in two years. "Except for work, I don't go out
