From NBCnews.com….
Only weeks before the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns began in March 2020, Nicole Wilson got a disheartening diagnosis. She’d been coping with a sinus infection for months, and after seeing multiple specialists, she learned she had a disorder that had weakened her immune system and made her more susceptible to infections.
The condition, common variable immune deficiency, or CVID, prevents her body from making enough antibodies to fight off viral or bacterial infections.
“CVID is a huge, huge thing to deal with, but finding out you have it at the start of a pandemic was just a double whammy,” Wilson, a talent manager from Pittsburgh and mother of a 5-year-old girl, said. “It was very overwhelming and really scary.”
The immune disorder put Wilson at risk for severe Covid-19 disease. She immediately quarantined and still has not seen friends for over a year.
