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Most rheumatologists and public health experts urge people with axial spondyloarthritis (which includes ankylosing spondylitis) to get the vaccine as soon as possible.
There are risks in trying to interpret these antibody tests yourself, because even doctors aren’t sure what the results could mean.
It’s not okay to ignore the concerns of immunocompromised people throughout the pandemic — and then turn around and claim to have a chronic illness in order to access the vaccine.
In one of the first studies to look at the impact of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines on people with chronic inflammatory diseases, researchers found patients were able to produce a sufficient amount of antibodies with relatively minimal side effects.
In the Global Healthy Living Foundation’s latest COVID-19 Patient Support Program poll, more than 40 percent of respondents said they will continue social distance and wear masks around other fully vaccinated loved ones.
It’s not a reason to start using aspirin or to stop following standard COVID-19 mitigation efforts, but it does call for future studies to investigate the role aspirin plays in COVID-19.
Most rheumatologists and public health experts want people living with rheumatic diseases like psoriatic arthritis (PsA) to get the vaccine as soon as they can.
Most rheumatologists and public health experts want people living with rheumatic diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to get the vaccine at the soonest opportunity.
Although people with asthma should still exercise caution when it comes to COVID-19, new research suggests that asthma alone is not associated with COVID-19 complications.
The main message: Get whichever vaccine is available to you first.