The COVID-19 Vaccine series featuring Q&A panel discussions with Temple Health and Fox Chase Cancer Center experts continues with a session addressing your frequently asked medical questions.
This discussion focuses on whether it is safe to receive the coronavirus vaccine during medical treatment, the body’s immune system and how medical treatment affects it, benefits vs. risks of patients and cancer survivors getting the coronavirus vaccine, concerns about patients in the ICU and whether they should be vaccinated, antibody checks to determine levels of immunity, and how coronavirus vaccination may affect timing of other immunizations, such as vaccine for shingles, flu, and other diseases.
Featured panelists include:
1. Martin Edelman, MD, Chair and Professor, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Deputy Cancer Center Director for Clinical Research, and G. Morris Dorrance Jr. Chair in Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center
2. Thomas Fekete, MD, MACP, Thomas Durant Chair, Department of Medicine, and Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
JUMP TO Q&A VIDEO TOPICS:
1:11 Is it safe to receive the vaccine during medical treatment?
2:32 Many types of medical treatment, including chemotherapy, radiation, hormone therapy and stem cell transplants, can harm immune function. Which of these have the most potential for harm with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines?
4:52 The vaccines are reportedly about 95% effective at preventing coronavirus infection. Do you think that benefit would outweigh any risks for patients?
6:12 After cancer treatment ends, does the immune system recover and how is this evaluated? Should people in remission or long-term survivors with normal immune function be urged to get the vaccine?
8:13 Should people in the ICU get the COVID-19 vaccine?
9:15 Will vaccination require titer antibody checks to make sure proper immunity was achieved? Will it require quantitative antibody check? T cells evaluation?
10:22 How should other immunizations (flu, Tdap, pneumonia, shingles, hepatitis A and B) be scheduled around time of Covid-19 immunization?
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