Shifting ‘definition of fully vaccinated’ muddles COVID-19 vaccine efficacy data for IMIDs

An evolving definition of “fully vaccinated” has made it difficult to assess the utility and success of COVID-19 vaccines among patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, a presenter noted here.
Early in the COVID-19 vaccine era, breakthrough infections were thought to be rare, Jeffrey Sparks, MD, MMSc, associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, told attendees at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium. “It was thought that vaccines would get rid of COVID, but that has not been the case,” he

An evolving definition of “fully vaccinated” has made it difficult to assess the utility and success of COVID-19 vaccines among patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, a presenter noted here.
Early in the COVID-19 vaccine era, breakthrough infections were thought to be rare, Jeffrey Sparks, MD, MMSc, associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, told attendees at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium. “It was thought that vaccines would get rid of COVID, but that has not been the case,” he