Mar 12, 2021
MADISON (WKOW) -- For the past year, Alison Blythe has only left home to go to the grocery store, the bank and the pharmacy. When she does go out, she wears a mask and latex gloves. Now, she's finally breathing a sigh of relief, knowing she will soon be eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
She said with her medical conditions, if she were to get COVID-19, she could easily need to be on a ventilator. But her own health isn't her only worry. Blythe lives with her 71-year-old mother, too.
"She's a stroke and cancer survivor," Blythe said. "If I were to get the virus, [it] could potentially kill her if it were to pass on to her. So it's literally a life and death kind of situation for us to not be exposed to anyone, whether they know they have it or not."