Nature Reviews Rheumatology features a review of three notable papers that address the impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on people with inflammatory rheumatic disease.
Studies on the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines, have shown rapid and strong development of immunity in healthy populations. Unfortunately, patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease (IRD) were excluded from participation in the large registration trials for the vaccines. Thus, the effectiveness and safety of vaccination in these vulnerable individuals was therefore not known.