COVID-19
My favorite three presentations from day 4 at ACR 2021 included the following:
Breakthrough Infections in Rheumatic Disease Patients
Late-Breaking Abstract L16 - Dr. Jazvinder Singh presented the…

3 years 3 months ago
Love this COVID ARDS risk calculator put forth by @JYazdanyMD at #ACR21 for our patient's with Rheumatic Diseases. A wonderful resource in talking to our patients about vaccine necessity! @CleClinicMD https://t.co/EA5jVYweHm


3 years 3 months ago
#ACR21 Late breaking
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Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections Post-vaccination Among Immunocompromised Patients with Autoimmune or Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis from a U.S. Nationally-sampled EMR Data Repository https://t.co/oyovR27Upm

3 years 3 months ago
Reasons for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in rheumatology pts in southeast US based on survey study:
🔰Vaccine being “rushed” or “experimental”
🔰Safety of vaccine in the patients’ rheumatologic diagnoses
🔰Side effects
🔰Concern for Allergic reaction
Abst#1589 #ACR21 @RheumNow https://t.co/xm15KxdA56


3 years 3 months ago
Factors Associated with Poor Vaccine Response in Rituximab: Dr. Yuzaiful Yusof (@Yuz6Yusof) discusses abstract #0437 presented at the #ACR21 annual meeting.
https://t.co/T0PFiZlbTa https://t.co/idj5T7j7ke


3 years 3 months ago
Update on Safety, Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in SLE from Dr. Yuz Yusof ( @Yuz6Yusof)
It's almost a year since the Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccine has been made available by the FDA under EUA. But is the vaccine safe for people with lupus?
https://t.co/i3HeCvS6El https://t.co/Tn0nWKrK4T

Hitting the home stretch, day 3 presentations were big! Here are a few of my favorites:
Secukinumab Efficacy in Enthesitis-Related and Juvenile Psoriatic Arthritis.
Abstract 1424 – Dr. Hermine…

3 years 3 months ago
GRA @rheum_covid data presented by @mugartegil. African-American and Hispanic individuals with SLE have MUCH worse COVID-19 outcomes. Likely related socioeconomic and health disparities. Abstr#1933 #ACR21 @RheumNow https://t.co/YUoOeIxN7O
