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COVID-19 and Transplant Patients

Transplants | Last Active: Mar 6, 2021 | Replies (459)

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@danab

I'm also very curious about this, I haven't heard anything yet and I will admit I'm concerned that based on what I'm hearing that the type of method there using is to try to get our immune system to basically produse a immune response to attack the virus. My concern is will it also cause an attack on our transplanted organ which is why we take anti rejection meds. I'm thinking that even tho they are testing on a lot of people does that include people in our catagory.
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Dana

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Hi Dana & @jolinda -
I too would be cautious about finding out the safety for transplant patients before taking the vaccine - I wonder if anyone in the Mayo transplant department knows if there have been transplant recipients included in any trial?
But my question is - since the purpose of all the vaccines like flu, shingles and pneumonia is to provoke an immune response, is the Covid-19 vaccine any different?
Sue