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'If I get it, that's it for me': Paralysed, petrified and living alone at the time of a pandemic
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When the government introduced lockdown measures last month those classed in the vulnerable category were told to drastically change the way they live and self-isolate.
One man, who is paralysed from the shoulders down, has been told by doctors if he caught Covid-19 it is likely he would not survive.
The 41-year-old man, from Leigh, still requires vital hospital treatment and described the painstaking methods medics now have to take to ensure he does not catch the virus.
He described his experience of what it is like to be vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic in his own words to the Manchester Evening News. "When I was 17 I broke my neck. "I am paralysed from the shoulders down. "I live on my own in the community. "I get funding from
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