
In transplant recipients, COVID-19 vaccines reduce infection and mortality risks
Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 substantially lowers the risks of “breakthrough” infections and death due to COVID-19 in adult organ transplant recipients, according to a pair of research letters in Transplantation, the official Journal of The Transplantation Society and the International Liver Transplantation Society. Transplantation Editor-in-Chief Jeremy R. Chapman, MD, comments that “these studies show that vaccine protects transplant patients and cuts mortality […]
Read more