Transplant patients and others with weak immune systems often don’t get adequate responses to their first vaccine course and are at the top of the list for getting potential COVID-19 boosters.
U.S. drug regulators are set to clear a third dose of COVID-19 vaccines for people with weak immune systems as a new study showed the benefits of an extra shot in transplant patients.
An advisory committee to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set toThe FDA is closely monitoring data on studies of additional doses in immunocompromised people, according to an email from the agency that said it would share more information in the near future.The new study of 120 transplant patients looked at the effects of a third dose that was given two months after the second.
“I am pretty excited about the results,” said Atul Humar, a study author and chief of transplant medicine at Toronto General Hospital, one of several University of Toronto-affiliated hospitals in the network. “It is a slam dunk.”
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