But now a new concern has arisen.
Thus, several kidney transplant patients have found that they do not appear to produce the necessary antibodies after receiving the two vaccine sticks that are mandatory for most vaccines.
This is what the national chairman of the Kidney Association, Jan Rishave, says.
– Several patients have been found who do not have the antibodies that should be in the body after vaccination.
– It makes people scared and return to isolation, he says.
Antibodies to coronavirus are formed in the body if you become infected with the virus or if you get a coronavina vaccine. Thereafter, the antibodies protect against getting covid-19 in the future.
Several kidney transplanted Danes have had their levels of antibodies tested in their blood. It happened a month after they received the second and final dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
The Kidney Association assumes that the low level of antibodies is related to the fact that the kidney patients are taking immunosuppressive medication.
– But we have no documentation yet, emphasizes Jan Rishave.
Patients who have had a kidney or other organ transplant take immunosuppressive drugs so that the body’s immune system does not fight the foreign organ, so that the body repels it.
The Kidney Association has become aware of the problem of low levels of antibodies in the blood after several members contacted the association.
The members have been tested in connection with research experiments at, among others, Rigshospitalet.
The Kidney Association will now have investigated whether the patients are not really protected against covid-19 after two vaccine stings, and whether they should have more stings before the vaccines are effective.
The health authorities need to investigate the matter thoroughly and find out what is wrong.
– You also have to make a plan to find out what we do for these patients who are at risk of getting coronavirus, says Jan Rishave.
Precisely because kidney patients are on immunosuppressive therapy, they are particularly vulnerable to coronavirus. For the same reason, many of the Kidney Association’s members have been in isolation over the past year, says the chairman.
In total, there are almost 4,000 kidney transplant persons in Denmark.
Source: The Nordic Page