{"id":4410,"date":"2022-05-17T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:10:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:10:21","slug":"researchers-recommend-kidney-transplant-recipients-continue-getting-covid-19-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/05\/17\/researchers-recommend-kidney-transplant-recipients-continue-getting-covid-19-vaccinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers recommend kidney transplant recipients continue getting COVID-19 vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4410\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Although COVID-19 vaccines lower the risk of infection among kidney transplant recipients, breakthrough infections can occur, and researchers recommend patients continue to receive boosters when available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe SARS-CoV-2 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines have shown high clinical efficacy in preventing COVID-19 in the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/nephrology\/20220214\/low-incidence-of-donorspecific-antibodies-for-kidney-transplant-recipients-with-covid19\" target=\"_blank\">immunocompetent population<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<strong>Ivan Zahradka, MD,<\/strong>\u00a0from the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in the Czech Republic, and colleagues wrote. They added, \u201cHowever, data about the effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are conflicting, and to what extent the two doses of an mRNA vaccine protect [kidney transplant recipients] KTRs from COVID-19 is unclear.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/nephrology\/20220511\/researchers-recommend-kidney-transplant-recipients-continue-getting-covid19-vaccinations\">Read the full story<\/a> in Healio.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4410\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Although COVID-19 vaccines lower the risk of infection among kidney transplant recipients, breakthrough infections can occur, and researchers recommend patients continue to receive boosters when available. \u201cThe SARS-CoV-2 messenger &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/05\/17\/researchers-recommend-kidney-transplant-recipients-continue-getting-covid-19-vaccinations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Researchers recommend kidney transplant recipients continue getting COVID-19 vaccinations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":3858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,42,912,2],"tags":[263],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1421","post_likes_plusCounter":"3","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4411,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}