Coloradans with health conditions navigate “in-between land” as world seems to move on from pandemic

Josh Solomon, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who treats patients with diseases that scar their lungs, including Pierre-Louis, said people with those conditions are about 60% more likely to die of COVID-19 than healthy people if it gets into their lungs.

James Burton, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who works with patients before and after their liver transplants at UCHealth, said only about a quarter of patients who have had an organ transplant develop COVID-19 antibodies after two vaccine doses, though some have after receiving a third or fourth shot.