Most people with cancer or undergoing active treatment for the disease should get vaccinated against COVID-19 at the earliest opportunity, experts say but it’s still not known how well protected they are from the virus after getting inoculated.
Anthony Fauci and Christine Grady give remarks as they jointly accept Catholic Theological Union s 2021 Blessed are the Peacemakers award. (NCR screenshot)
Dr. Anthony Fauci and nurse-bioethicist Christine Grady were honored for their work against the coronavirus with Catholic Theological Union s Blessed are the Peacemakers award at an online event April 28.
Fauci was praised for being a voice of reason, compassion and integrity as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical adviser to the president during the pandemic, while Grady was hailed for her work identifying, researching, and documenting ethical issues concerning COVID-19 vaccines, resource allocation and the safety of health care workers during the pandemic through her role as Bioethics Department chief at the National Institutes of Health.
NIH to study COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness on patients with compromised immune systems
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BETHESDA, Md. - The National Institutes of Health announced on April 23, that it is launching a study to assess how people with compromised immune systems respond to COVID-19 vaccines.
The study has already begun enrolling participants at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, the NIH said. It will be a single-site study with up to 500 people enrolled, 400 of whom will have primary or secondary immune system disorders and 100 without such conditions.
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