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COVID-19 vaccines may protect many, but not all, people with suppressed immune systems
Jennifer Couzin-FrankelScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.For Eva Schrezenmeier, a nephrologist at Charité University Hospital in Berlin, the news was sobering: Among 40 patients with transplanted kidneys at her hospital who’d been vaccinated against COVID-19, only one was churning out the antibodies that would likely protect him from the disease. Because transplant patients take powerful drugs to suppress the immune system so it doesn’t attack a donated organ, her team expected diminished responses to a vaccine.