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How to Provide the Needed Protection from COVID-19 to Patients with Hematologic Malignancies.

Antoni RibasMadhav V DhodapkarKatie M CampbellFaith E DaviesSteven D GoreRonald LevyLee M Greenberger
Published in: Blood cancer discovery (2021)
Patients with hematologic malignancies are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 infections, and upon a pooled data analysis of 24 publications, there is evidence that they have suboptimal antibody responses to COVID-19 vaccination and boosters. To provide them the needed additional protection from COVID-19, it is imperative to achieve a 100% full immunization rate in health care workers and adult caretakers, and to foster research to test higher doses and repeated rounds of COVID-19 vaccines and the use of passive immune prophylaxis and therapy.
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