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People who have rare and complex chronic conditions, such as immunodeficiencies, rely on life-sustaining medicine developed from plasma donations – including Julie Jolley.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Although Covid presents relatively few risks to children and vaccinated adults under 50, it presents more to older people and some with specific immunodeficiencies.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021

These are the pandemic experiences of immunocompromised people—those with organ transplants or certain cancers, those on chemotherapy or immunosuppressant drugs, those with genetic immunodeficiencies, those with other issues that suppress their immune systems.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2021

Cancer patients undergoing active treatment, some organ and stem cell transplant recipients, people with moderate or severe immunodeficiencies, people with advanced or untreated HIV, and those taking high-dose corticosteroids are in this group.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2021

Rarely, primary immunodeficiencies that are present from birth may also occur.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013