I want to call your attention to the next Johns Hopkins Webinar on COVID-19 Antibody Testing of Recipients of Solid Organ Transplants (IRB00248540) being led by the transplant team at Johns Hopkins. You can access the link and register thru the link that @athenalee has shared.

Everyone is welcome.
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Let's meet here after the webinar and share what we have learned, and how we can support each other.

Thanks, @athenalee for the shingrix info and the webinar info. I just signed up to attend.

I've searched online for any trials that might be available for immunocompromised patients who would be willing to participate by having a third shot but have not been able to find any. With only one person having a negative experience that may or may not be attributed to the third shot, it is sounding very positive.

Mass General's guidelines are basically to continue to do exactly what we have been doing. I can follow that somewhat but not entirely. We are spending a long weekend in Maine with our son, his wife, our daughter, and her husband in July and per MGH I should not come within 6' of them and should be masked when with them. That is not going to happen. I realize there is a slight risk but they are all fully vaccinated so I think the risk is worth it.

MGH will not advise the third shot until it is approved by the CDC so I hope the CDC doesn't take too long. I don't hold out much hope that they will be quick though, we are overall a small segment of the population.
JK