COVID Boosters Can Help People With Lupus

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A new study shows people with lupus who get a COVID booster shot after full vaccination are half as likely to experience a COVID infection afterward.

Dr. Amit Saxena. He's an assistant professor and lupus specialist at NYU Langone and NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City.

-CoV-2 infection, cases were overwhelmingly mild among SLE patients who were fully vaccinated," Saxena said in an NYU Langone news release.to attack itself, including healthy tissues but especially joints and skin. It affects roughly 200,000 Americans. Treatment includes taking immune-suppressing drugs like steroids, which control symptoms but put patients at increased risk of contracting viruses like COVID.

 

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I have lupus double boosted. Now for how long this last?

60% of the time it works every time

Now do lyme disease.

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