how well they respond to the vaccines. and that study found if you had multiple myeloma, and you were given the pfizer or moderna vaccines, you had less than a 50% chance of adequately responding to the vaccines. it s because your immune system is suppressed and simply doesn t see, doesn t react to the vaccine. with respect to parkinson s disease, some of the drugs used to treat parkinson s disease can be immunosuppressive. i m not sure what medications he was on, but in addition to that, when people have parkinson s disease, they have weaker muscle control, and that can include the muscles of the throat, your swallowing muscles. so that can also lead to complications with with respect to your ability to breathe. doctor, i read in the new york times tonight that the fda is very close to allow brand mixing in vaccines. so, for example, you got your first two.
moderna s, you can get a pfizer booster. who is this good news for, doctor? so in particular, people who got johnson & johnson. we ve known for some time now for at least a few months that this was going to be a two-dose vaccine, a two-dose regimen would be needed. it s not to say that johnson & johnson vaccine is inferior. after all, we give two doses of the pfizer and moderna and are now for certain groups giving a third dose. but i think in particular for people who got the johnson & johnson vaccine, getting some guidance as to what second dose should be given, it does appear that they may benefit, that group in particular may benefit from mixing and matching. so if they got the johnson & johnson first, to get either pfizer or moderna second does seem to be the more advisable course here. speaking of the fda, former director scott gottlieb tweeted this on sunday. uk reported its biggest one-day case increase in three months, just as this new delta variant
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