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COVID-19 and Transplant Patients

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

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@almula

dear all I am liver transplants guy ..I like to know if the vaccine will be ok for us or we should wait ...please advice..

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My advice is to not come here for medical advice. Please contact a medical professional and avoid our "amateur hour"

@almula. At this point they don’t know if it’s safe for us because that testing has not been done.

As others have commented though, wait to hear from your transplant team. My gut feeling, along with what I have read, is that it will be well into 2021 or possibly even longer, before they know if it’s safe for us. The advice I read was to wait for “community immunity”, basically the same as herd immunity.

I realize that may not be what you want to hear, but it is what I have read. 😖
JK

@almula, please see this post from @keggebraaten, a transplant coordinator at Mayo Clinic
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/covid-19-in-transplant-patients/?pg=26#comment-446964

She explains that the Mayo Transplant team is "just now getting the scientific information they need to decide if they will be recommending this vaccine for our transplant patients. Once they have a decision, we will let you all know. However, please remember that you should get the final word from the team that is caring for you. General information is fantastic to have, but every patient is unique and should rely on specific information from their current doctor. Also note – the information regarding COVID changes by the hour as the experts learn more about this virus. Something published today could be out of date tomorrow. You can get the most up-to-date information from your local health department or the CDC website.

Here is the latest general patient information about the COVID vaccine from Mayo Clinic. This is not specific the transplant patients.
– COVID-19 Vaccine https://mcforms.mayo.edu/mc3100-mc3199/mc3127-72.pdf