The Wise Choice Cycling Club were on a charity ride for Auto Immune Disease awareness in Lumberton, New Jersey, when the unfortunate incident happened.
regardless of whether they re immunocompromised or age. no. we don t know that. we do know now that we already have approval to give the third shot from the mrna to individuals who are immune compromised, either transplant patients on suppressive therapy, cancer patients, patients with auto immune disease. we know that s good to go. that s happening. what s being discussed right now is the third shot for individuals. the age has not been determined and that s what they re actually discussing now. it could be a broad range. it could be anyone from 18 or 16 or 18 older. it could be elderly individuals. it could be people down to a certain age.
there. i mean, people who, for example, have received organ transplants and they are taking medications to prevent rejection of their their transplanted organs. people who have recently been through chemotherapy. people who may have auto immune disease and take medications to tamp down their immune system, for that reason. it s an exhaustive list but, anderson, as you mentioned, it is kind of on the honor system, right? there s no prescription that s gonna be necessary. you don t have to show up with an antibody test to show that your antibodies are low. in fact, they recommend that you don t do that. so, it s gonna be more of a, you know, people generally know if if they re immunocompromised. it s a conversation they have with their doctors and those are the people who are going to be recommended this third shot. why they did it was, as you said, because not only did they have evidence of lower immunity. but they are also getting sick. people who have vax who are vaccinated and
clearly, solid organ transplant recipients, they take medications to suppress their immune system so that their own immune system does not attack their new transplanted organ, right? so they are clearly on that list. but there are other people on the list as well. people who may recently had chemotherapy, immuno suppressants because of auto immune disease. they need to define that clearly but it s going to make a big difference in millions of people s lives, i think. in fact, i want to introduce you to a patient who has been struggling with this and is probably now going to live a different life after this is officially passed by the cdc. take a look. 39-year-old kimberly got her second dose of the covid-19 vaccine back in february. she hoped at the time it would be a game changer. i knew there was a possibility that it would not work for me. but given the situation with covid and the pandemic, it was definitely worth the try.
looking at the data, looking at how different groups of people pond to the vaccines, it s clear that highly immunosuppressed people, so here i m talking about people who have had organ transplant, a lung or kidney transplant, people who are on highly immunosuppressive drugs because they have cancer or auto immune disease, people who have aids, so people who are highly immunosuppressed do not respond as well, develop as strong an immune response to the vaccines. it s not waning immunity. they never really developed that strong immuno response. giving an extra dose of vaccine to the highly immunosuppressed people we can induce a better immune response. i think you ll see guidance from the fda and eventually from the cdc recommending that that population, the highly immunosuppressed get an extra dose. so are you suggesting that you don t believe all americans will have to get that extra dose