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To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? That is the question.
Transplants | Last Active: Jun 28, 2021 | Replies (313)Comment receiving replies
@merpreb- Merry, I don't have the link in front of me, but I believe it has been mentioned by the CDC, Transplant articles, and even by Dr Poland that elderly will have lowered response, as will immunosuppressed patients. 30%-40%-45% vs 90%-94% for general population are numbers that i seem to recall.
More important than numbers is that my transplant team says to get the vaccine even if the protection is lower that general population.
Hope this is helpful.
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Yes. I will get it. Thanks.
Oh, my @rosemarya. Those numbers are worse than I had heard, I hope they are not correct. I had heard our immunity would probably be about 65% but if that's from the CDC it probably is closer to what the actual percentage will be.
Also, I found this article interesting - they expect Covid to be seasonal like the flu. When you think of it, it's not too surprising. We would of course have better luck defeating it, if more people would be compliant.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp
Someone had expressed interest in how my lab work yesterday was. It came back pretty much identical to always. Of course there are minor variations in some of the numbers, but it was right in line with the graph of past results. Definitely no variance from the vaccine though.
The one number I always wonder about and have not really gotten a great answer on, is why my protein always shows low. I eat a lot of protein, even more now that I know I have osteoporosis.. and that protein is as important as calcium, but still, it's slightly lower than the recommended range.
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Exactly- better to help kill the variants!