By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
A small study offers the first hint that an extra dose of COVID-19 vaccines just might give some organ transplant recipients a needed boost in protection.
Even as most vaccinated people celebrate a return to near normalcy, millions who take immune-suppressing medicines because of transplants, cancer or other disorders remain in limbo â uncertain how protected they really are. Itâs simply harder for vaccines to rev up a weak immune system.
Mondayâs study tracked just 30 transplant patients but itâs an important step toward learning if booster doses could help.
It didn t help everybody. But of the 24 patients who appeared to have no protection after the routine two vaccinations, eight of them â a third â developed some virus-fighting antibodies after an extra shot, researchers from Johns Hopkins University reported in Annals of Internal Medicine. And six others who d had only minimal antibodies all got
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