Posted on 07/19/2021 4:27:19 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Last week, Israel began administering third vaccine doses to people with weakened immune systems, including organ transplant recipients and those with autoimmune diseases. Cancer patients are also sometimes immunocompromised.
The limited booster shot rollout comes as the Delta variant has spread quickly in Israel, causing an increase in infections, and prompting the return of compulsory mask-wearing indoors and encouragement of mask-wearing outdoors.
In a statement, the ministry said close to 90% of oncology patients who were vaccinated and undergoing chemotherapy for solid tumors “maintained a high level of antibodies following the vaccine” and thus there was no immediate need for a booster.
The ministry also noted that the vaccine could cause side effects in some patients, including “lymph node enlargement or liver dysfunction,” and therefore “the recommendation at this time” is not to administer a third COVID dose to cancer patients.
While the ministry said most cancer patients should not receive a third dose, it noted that those with certain hematological cancers are encouraged and eligible to do so. Those include patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia; multiple myeloma; and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. All decisions on receiving a COVID booster shot must be made in consultation with a physician.
Among those who are newly eligible to receive a third dose of the COVID vaccine — with the approval of their physician — are heart, lung, kidney and liver transplant recipients; those with multiple sclerosis; and patients with rheumatological or autoimmune diseases, according to Dr. Emilia Anis, head of the ministry’s epidemiological unit.
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Nor should anyone.
I know one cancer patient that was talked into getting one by her oncologist. Big mistake.
I would never get one.
Agree.
I can’t believe they’re suggesting for immunocompromised, either.
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last time i saw my doc he ask if i was vaxed
i said yeah, you know me so well...
he just side eyed me, smiled, and shook his head
My oncologist told me he had no recommendation about getting a Covid-19 vaccine. He asked once. Told them why I wasn’t and that was the end of that. I love my oncologist. I actually look forward to seeing him every three months.
Last time I saw my VA PCP, she suggested I get the vaccine. Told her I wasn’t going to get one and there would be no further discussion about it.
The vaccine IS the great reset.
Our doc isn’t ‘vax’d and did not suggest we take these shots.
I feel bad for the docs who are Pharma owned (via the hospital systems that own their practices) and must comply with this absurd requirement.
Sounds like you have a great oncologist. Putting YOU first.
it's just monitoring from now an, so...
He is very smart; have to be if you work at MD Anderson. One of the things that sets him a part from most oncologists is that he is very personable. With me, we are on a first name basis when we are in the examination alone. I of course refer to him a Doctor____ with his nurse an NP.
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