Covid-19 vaccines are proving less effective for some transplant patients and others with weakened immune systems
Alicia Merritt had received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine and was thinking about taking down a shower curtain she hung over the bar in her small Baltimore tavern to separate herself from customers when she recently learned some troubling news.
For many people like her, a liver transplant patient who must take immunosuppressants daily to prevent her body from rejecting the organ, the vaccines are proving less effective than for people with normal immune systems, a new study found. “I’m putting myself out there in the public, and I could be still getting Covid,” said Ms. Merritt, the 71-year-old owner and bartender at Birds of a Feather. She said she later found out she had no antibodies against the virus.
Now, Ms. Merritt and millions of other people with compromised immune systems and their doctors are scrambling to figure out what to do in an evolving science project playing out in real time. Some are taking a third shot to try to jar their immune systems into generating the antibodies that protect them from the virus. Others are considering modifying their immunosuppressants in consultation with their doctors in hopes another shot will be effective. And a few are jumping through bureaucratic hoops toTo Read the Full Story
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