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Even After Vaccination, Many People With Organ Transplants Remain At Risk For COVID-19

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found 46% of transplant patients produced no antibodies after either dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Dr. Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins who was part of the research into the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines in transplant patients.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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