Federal guidelines recommend that people with underlying conditions putting them at increased risk from the coronavirus be prioritized for vaccination. But states are charting their own paths, and access to a shot comes down to where you live.
By LENA H. SUN AND ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER | The Washington Post | Published: February 26, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. An inflammatory lung disease puts Nate Engebrecht at increased risk from the coronavirus. When he was hospitalized last year with influenza, doctors gave the Milwaukee college student respiratory therapy every four hours to keep air moving through his lungs. We re all terrified of what would happen if he got covid, said his mother, Kerri Engebrecht.