{"id":2582,"date":"2023-02-14T10:56:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2023-02-14T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:56:26","slug":"for-older-americans-the-pandemic-is-not-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/02\/14\/for-older-americans-the-pandemic-is-not-over\/","title":{"rendered":"For Older Americans, the Pandemic Is Not Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/11\/health\/covid-pandemic-seniors.html\">New York Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seniors are increasingly left to protect themselves as the rest of the country abandons precautions: \u201cAmericans do not agree about the duty to protect others.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early December, Aldo Caretti developed a cough and, despite all his precautions, came up positive for Covid on a home test. It took his family a couple of days to persuade Mr. Caretti, never fond of doctors, to go to the emergency room. There, he was sent directly to the intensive care unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Caretti and his wife, Consiglia, both 85, lived quietly in a condo in Plano, Texas. \u201cHe liked to read and learn, in English and Italian,\u201d said his son Vic Caretti, 49. \u201cHe absolutely adored his three grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aldo Caretti had encountered some health setbacks last year, including a mild stroke and a serious bout of shingles, but \u201che recuperated from all that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid was different. Even on a ventilator, Mr. Caretti struggled to breathe. After 10 days, \u201che wasn\u2019t getting better,\u201d said Vic Caretti, who flew in from Salt Lake City. \u201cHis organs were starting to break down. They said, \u2018He\u2019s not going to make it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Times) Seniors are increasingly left to protect themselves as the rest of the country abandons precautions: \u201cAmericans do not agree about the duty to protect others.\u201d In early December, Aldo Caretti developed a cough and, despite all his precautions, came up positive for Covid on a home test. It took his family a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}