Opinion: High-risk individuals should get priority access to Covid therapies. That isn’t happening

Ms. S, a primary care patient in one of our clinics (M.L.B.), recently called in with loss of taste and a terrible cough, worse than her regular breathing problems. She said she had gone out to play bingo the past weekend with friends, her first outing in weeks. Two days later, one of her friends called and told Ms. S she had tested positive for Covid-19.
Ms. S was frightened — as an older woman with heart and lung conditions, getting Covid-19 posed a serious threat to her life, especially since she hadn’t yet received her booster vaccine. But she didn’t have a home test to check for Covid-19. Read the rest…