Covid-19 vaccine and transplant patients (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Covid-19 vaccine and transplant patients

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Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have shown that although two doses of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- confers some protection for people who have received solid organ transplants, it's still not enough to enable them to dispense with COVID safety measures.

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Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, with public domain images and background transplant surgery photograph courtesy of Johns Hopkins Medicine

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