immunocompromised

Montana’s governor pushed the state’s health workers to seek religious exemptions to a federal mandate to be vaccinated against covid, but the number who have done so is unknown.

At least 7 million immunocompromised people could benefit from the monoclonal antibody injections designed to prevent COVID. The government says it has enough doses for a fraction of those in need ― and it doesn’t have the money to buy more.

The agency recommends one additional shot for the 7 million American adults whose weak immune systems make them more vulnerable to covid infection and death.

The roughly 7 million Americans who are immunocompromised — including many people with disabilities — live with much higher risk of COVID-19, and near-constant vigilance.

Powell had been treated over the past few years for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that impairs the body’s ability to fight infections -- and to respond well to vaccines.

People with weakened immune systems who already got two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines can now get a third shot. But exactly who is eligible? Here's what we know so far.

The FDA amended its emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to allow for an additional dose for some immunocompromised people.

Dr. Khaled Fernainy of AdventHealth says that vaccinated immunocompromised patients can still get very sick with COVID and even end up on a ventilator.

Vaccines may not be as effective for those who are immunocompromised. Protecting them needs to be made a top priority, says researchers — to keep them safe and to slow the emergence of variants.

Several teachers at an elementary school in Bay County have taken it upon themselves to make sure a colleague, who's been diagnosed with cancer, can isolate in her classroom and still provide instruction.