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COVID-19 vaccination: Recommendations for management of patients with allergy or immune-based diseases
- Source :
- South African Medical Journal; Vol. 111 No. 4 (2021); 291-294
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- South African Medical Association NPC, 2021.
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Abstract
- As South Africa continues to battle the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections, the imminent arrival of vaccines against COVID-19 offers hope. Vaccine roll-out has been accompanied by heightened media coverage that has created both excitement and anxiety, reporting on the shortened timeline of vaccine trials and approvals, as well as the recent series of anaphylaxis cases associated with the two approved mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Patients with allergic and other immune-based diseases are subgroups especially concerned about vaccine safety and efficacy. This practice guideline offers broad recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination in various subgroups of allergic and immunebased disease, highlighting risk/benefit evaluation, and where and how routine vaccination should be altered.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Allergy
COVID-19 Vaccines
Disease
Immunocompromised Host
South Africa
Immunogenicity, Vaccine
Pandemic
medicine
Humans
Intensive care medicine
Adverse effect
Anaphylaxis
Pandemics
Vaccines, Synthetic
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
COVID-19
General Medicine
Guideline
medicine.disease
Vaccination
Anxiety
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20785135 and 02569574
- Volume :
- 111
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- South African Medical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8b50339c35027de9002c9409305743d3