John Hopkins Webinar on transplant recipients and vaccines

@contentandwell I wasn't able to tune in yesterday. I'm a study participant and in the past have emailed them and requested a link to the recorded event. Will do so now and pass it along.
Looking forward to seeing it and hearing responses here.

I watched the JH webinar yesterday and they said that once the FDA fully approved the vaccines, doctors will be able to suggest a 3rd shot. France has already approved it for transplant patients. Now Pfizer is going down the route of approval for a third shot booster. I had the first two Moderna shots with zero antibodies. After the third shot I did develop some antibodies (again Moderna). Yesterday I took my Fourth shot and in 2 weeks I will have blood work to determine exactly my antibody load. I am a Liver and Kidney transplant patient (June 2019). I live in a city are ( 7 homes per acre ) and crowds are unavoidable. I do mask, and limit myself to groceries and other essential errands. In Las Vegas we have an infection rate of over 9 and increasing rapidly, as only 50% of the population is fully vaccinated.

I believe the results so far indicate that two-thirds of the participants did not develop antibodies after the third dose. And, the emphasis remains to be masked at all times, indoors and outdoors.

Bottom line that I took away was pretend you are unvaccinated at all times. Also there was breakthrough infections of vaccinated transplant patients.

Fortunately I was one of the few that did after the third shot , yet I still do not know how much protection I have. I do remain masked and avoid extreme crowds, as I live in an area always crowded anywhere you go.

I take my 90 day test from 2nd vaccination next week. So far I’ve shown zero. I’m starting a new study from u of Mn. I got the call on Friday asking me to come in for testing. I will update my experience. It’s a two year study and I think 8 in person appointments. Hopefully we will get better answers soon. I personally feel vaccines may not be a successful path but I have hopes for pretreatments and new drugs that lesson impact if infected. I spoke at great length to a study coordinator from Regeneron. They are asking for approval to start study pre treating people immune compromised with monoclonal antibodies. They have had real promising data from treating family members in same house with infected family member. Very low % of family members got COVID. This is most promising in my opinion. I think biggest disappointment is not being included in vaccine studies. It put us a year behind.

We’re you able to find the webinar recording? I haven’t been able to find it.

Hello. I don't see the recording posted yet but I took photos on my phone of some of their slides. I can post them if it would help. Can't say that I am able to interpret everything but someone might!

It usually takes them a couple of days to send the link. Hoping for tomorrow. I will post as soon as I get it—I'm eager to see it, too

Here's the JH webinar link—

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