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posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 10 2022, @11:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-the-USA-and-Europe-stuffed dept.

COVID-19 Vaccines May Be Significantly Less Effective in People With Severe Obesity:

New research suggests that adults (aged 18 or older) with severe obesity generate a significantly weaker immune response to vaccination compared to those with normal weight. The study was conducted by Professor Volkan Demirhan Yumuk from Istanbul University in Turkey and colleagues and was presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (May 4-7).

The study also found that people with severe obesity (BMI of more than 40kg/m2) vaccinated with Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine generated significantly more antibodies than those vaccinated with CoronaVac (inactivated SARSCoV2) vaccine, suggesting that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine might be a better choice for this vulnerable population.

Obesity is a disease complicating the course of COVID-19, and the vaccine antibody response in adults with obesity may be compromised. Vaccines against influenza, hepatitis B, and rabies, have shown reduced responses in people with obesity.

To find out more, researchers investigated antibody responses following Pfizer/BioNTech and CoronaVac vaccination in 124 adults (average age 42-63 years) with severe obesity who visited the Obesity Center at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Hospitals, between August and November 2021. They also recruited a control group of 166 normal weight adults (BMI less than 25kg/m2, average age 39-47 years) who were visiting the Cerrahpasa Hospitals Vaccination Unit.

Researchers measured antibody levels in blood samples taken from patients and normal weight controls who had received two doses of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or CoronaVac vaccine and had their second dose four weeks earlier. The participants were classified by infection history as either previously having COVID-19 or not (confirmed by their antibody profile).


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 11 2022, @05:50PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 11 2022, @05:50PM (#1244118)

    Does this fact make your politics sound bad? That I wanted the vaccine but was refused (and then caught COVID)?

    It was policy in many places. Here are just some noted instances of white people being placed at the bottom of the COVID healthcare list due to Democrat party racist policies:

    https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/susan-jones/biden-will-prioritize-brown-and-black-communities-covid-vaccine [cnsnews.com]
    https://khn.org/news/article/vermont-gives-blacks-and-other-minority-residents-vaccine-priority/ [khn.org]
    https://nypost.com/2022/01/10/fda-wants-race-ethnicity-factored-in-administering-covid-drugs/ [nypost.com]

    The vaccine was being offered to the general public, but with the state website noting that due to "equity", they were accepting black and Hispanic vaccination applications. I submitted my request anyway on the webpage, was honest about selecting White, non-Hispanic for ethnicity on the form, and got back a response that I did not qualify.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:38AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday May 12 2022, @08:38AM (#1244336) Homepage
    Man, you herp the derp like a real pro!
    """
    Starting Thursday, Vermont explicitly gave Black adults and people from other minority communities priority status for vaccinations. It follows Montana, which in January announced that Native Americans and other people of color, because they are at higher risk of complications from covid-19, would be allowed to receive the vaccine.
    """
    So Democrats are to blame for the "racism" of Republicans in Montana now, are they? (And I put racism in quotes, as it's not racism if there's a measurable increased risk factor in certain subpopulations - everyone sensible was prioritising high risk groups.)
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