{"id":5519,"date":"2022-09-30T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2022-09-30T07:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:36:04","slug":"lung-transplant-recipients-remain-at-high-risk-for-severe-disease-mortality-from-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/09\/30\/lung-transplant-recipients-remain-at-high-risk-for-severe-disease-mortality-from-omicron-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Lung transplant recipients remain at high risk for severe disease, mortality from omicron variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5519\" 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>Despite a lower overall mortality rate, lung transplant recipients remain at high risk for severe disease and death from the COVID-19 omicron variant compared with both the general population and other respiratory infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[The omicron variant] is shown to be associated with lower severity of illness in the general population, particularly among the vaccinated, compared to the preceding variants,\u201d\u00a0<strong>Jamie Hum, DNP,\u00a0<\/strong>lung transplant nurse practitioner in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine and with the Lung Transplant Program at NewYork-Presbyterian\/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and colleagues wrote in\u00a0<em>Annals of the American Thoracic Society<\/em>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/pulmonology\/20220926\/lung-transplant-recipients-remain-at-high-risk-for-severe-disease-mortality-from-omicron-variant\">Read more<\/a> in Healio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5519\" 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 Despite a lower overall mortality rate, lung transplant recipients remain at high risk for severe disease and death from the COVID-19 omicron variant compared with both the general population &hellip; 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