A recent study found nearly half of transplant patients who got two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced no antibodies against the coronavirus. Nikki Battiste takes a look.
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tonight the cdc is warning the 10 million americans with compromised immune systems that they will need to continue wearing face masks even after being vaccinated against covet cbs’s nikki batiste explains why the easing of covid restrictions has only added to the fear of millions of people like 43 year old jennifer troken i take about 15 pills a day she is fully vaccinated yet wholly unprotected from the virus because her immune system is suppressed by medicine she takes to prevent organ rejection i would stay up all night for months to help figure this out dr dory segev is a transplant surgeon at johns hopkins i’m hearing of transplant and other immunosuppressed people who got vaccinated and relaxed their safety behaviors and are now being admitted to hospitals and some are dying because they get coveted 19. johns hopkins tested the vaccine’s effectiveness on trokin this email revealed two shots produced no covet antibodies it was like a gut punch it’s your medication that’s essentially opposing the vaccine but you can’t not take your medication not taking that medication is just not an option and a recent study found nearly half the transplant patients who got two doses of either the moderna or pfizer vaccine produced no covet antibodies and the rest produce them at much lower levels than a normal immune system would so this is really much more of a stark contrast than we had expected troken got a third shot but that failed too segeb says for now her best protection against kovitt is for the rest of us to get vaccinated i hope if there are people out there who haven’t committed to being vaccinated in my heart i hope that they reconsider nikki batiste cbs news saddle river new jersey
