discussion. what we need to know is that multiple myeloma is a horrible blood cancer, the treatment of which requires you to become immunosuppressed. we ve known for months the vaccines do not work as well, if they work at all, in people who are immunosuppressed. this is why we ve been calling for boosters for those people and the fdary approved those ba in august. this is why it s so important for us to get vaccinated because those with healthy immune systems, when we get vaccinated, help to stop the spread of covid-19, thereby protecting people like general powell, who no doubt was infected by someone else, possibly someone who had not gotten the vaccines, so the take-away is not that the vaccines don t work but rath they re we know tho that they don t work for a small group of our population, and general powell was unfortunately one of those. i think this is so important because this is something i know