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1/ Transplant patients have significantly reduced antibody responses to #COVID vaccination. But does that matter? This report shows that it does. SOT recipients have a 82-fold higher risk of #breakthrough infection compared to immunocompetent hosts.
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2/ Even more important, serious consequences of #breakthrough infection are even more common in SOT receipts. They have a 485-fold higher risk of breakthrough infections that lead to hospitalization or death.
3/ Reporting the results as cases per million vaccinated puts this into perspective. For example, the CDC reported that a little more than 1 in 1 million normal hosts (immunocompetent ppl) will die from COVID following vaccination. For transom at recipients, that number is 664. 
