COVID vaccines and the immune system

[Richard-Allen]

This is for information only.

There are many people out there who may have a weakened or lowered immune system due to several reasons including a liver transplant and who might be struggling with concerns over whether a covid vaccine is safe to have or not.

There is a presentation being given on the 3rd March at 4:00pm online. Here people can submit their question and hopefully address any concerns they may have.

The speakers will include:

Professor Ellie Barnes is a Professor of Hepatology and Experimental Medicine at the University of Oxford. She leads an established research group with a focus on T cell immunology relevant to gut and liver disease, and seeks to translate laboratory and clinical findings through to human experimental medicine studies. Ellie is also a member of the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium.

Dr. Anna Goodman

Infectious Diseases Consultant at Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospital, London

Anna Goodman is an Infectious Diseases Consultant at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London. She has been working on vaccines since her PhD with the Jenner institute and has worked extensively on malaria vaccines. She is currently PI for the Oxford and Novavax COVID- 19 vaccine trials.

Prof. Tim Spector, OBE

Lead investigator on the ZOE COVID Symptom Study app

Prof. Tim Spector is a scientific co-founder at ZOE, lead scientist of the ZOE COVID Symptom Study, professor of genetic epidemiology and director of the TwinsUK Registry at King's College, London. Having published over 800 research articles, he is ranked in the top 1% of the world's most-cited scientists by Thomson-Reuters. He is also a prolific writer, with several popular science books including 'The Diet Myth' and 'Spoon-Fed'.

For more information please follow the link: covid.joinzoe.com/webinar/c...

[Flowergirl24]

Thank you for this info. It looks very interesting especially with Tim Spector as one of the speakers. He is a brilliant researcher and up until very recently after my transplant, I was part of the Twins study for 20 odd years. To help support him, I report my daily well being in the Zoe App. It’s really easy & so simple, I throughly recommend it.

[Richard-Allen in reply to Flowergirl24]

Good for you. this is all good stuff Flowergirl.

[joeburger in reply to Flowergirl24]

I do it too, I like to find out the number of cases in my area.

[Flowergirl24]

This is the link for your info covid.joinzoe.com/ I’ve just reported in and answered the 3 main questions.

1. Tests ( ie add COVID tests & results or update new ones)

2. Vaccines - have you had one, which one & have you had the second one

3. How do you feel today

And that’s it. There’s more info on there too. It’s now part of my daily routine 😀

[Flowergirl24]

You can still use it if you have not had the vaccine which is when I started using it. You update your situation day by day.

[Sydgal in reply to Flowergirl24]

Ok thanks x

[utep99]

I am a cancer patient. My second outbreak of liver cancer and took both Modera shots. I came through with just the usual body aches and spent the day in bed but was fine the next day.