A woman of North Carolina Fight against him Cancer in full pandemic of coronavirus.
The also mother has passed weeks trying to get answers of the officials status after the list of priorities of vaccination.
It was then that his group of eligibility out of rejected.
According to Fox 46, he was finally answered by the Health Department Y Human Services.
Time, your new great enemy
Adiba Barney and others patients with Cancer they will have to wait even longer for to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
So the weather also became a new enemy in its struggle for survive.
Barney lives in Cornelius with his husband and his little son.
Struggle against him Cancer of metastatic breast in state 4.
Take 20 pills a day and undergoes treatments of chemotherapy newspapers.
“Forever until I breathe for last time. It is part of our lives”He says of his pill use.
North Carolina adjusted his list of priorities for vaccinate to people of 65 years or older.
The woman speaks for all the terminally ill
So the woman and the members of your group support for him Cancer of mama were displaced of Phase Two, the Group Two to Group Four.
“Want what everyone can, you know you are going through terminal disease and treatments to get it, ”says Barney.
About a week ago, finally He received a answer from the office of the Dra. Cohen.
“They chose vaccinate first to over 65 years because, although they represent only 15% of cases of COVID-19, represent the 83% of deaths in North Carolina”.
“We are Prioritizing the vaccination of those who are in increased risk of contracting and suffer a disease serious for COVID-19”, The letter reads.
But as Barney argues, his condition makes it so vulnerable like them.
“According to studies from American Cancer Society, for example, we are at as high a risk as people from 80 years of die of COVID“.
“Please listen to us“, He points out.
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