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Which vaccine is best for CLLers on W&W?

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If you are on W&W with CLL, and you had a choice of Covid vaccine, would you choose the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine? And why? I'm asking because I have no idea! Thanks in advance.

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If the Pfizer vaccine works for 90%-94% of people and the Oxford vaccine for 70% of people with "normal" immune systems- which one would you choose if you are immune compromised? -

If I didn't have a choice, I would take the one I could get and then be tested for antibodies at least 30 days or more after the 2nd shot, BEFORE I would stop isolating and avoiding groups outside my own home I expect it to take most of 2021 before I stop wearing an N95 and faceshield outside my own home.

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Len

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Phil4-13 in reply tolankisterguy

I totally agree! 👍 Sandra

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lilica955 in reply toPhil4-13

Just like you,I totally agree!!!👍

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Smith123456

do you have a choice?

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Alobs in reply toSmith123456

At the moment both are available but I haven't been contacted yet. I'm 60, in Leicester

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mrsjsmith

Sorry as yet no choice in the UK, just take what you are given and as Len suggested try to get an antibody test. That may not be easy either, but just take what you are offered.

Colette

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FeistyGirl

I’d go for Pfizer BioN-Tech on the basis of its higher efficacy rate. However in the UK it will be a case of take what you’re given and I’m happy to go along with that. Ongoing research will hopefully highlight for the future which vaccine will be most beneficial to those of us with CLL and other blood cancers. Covid vaccines will become at least an annual event moving forward.

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81ue

Here's a warning that if you're on venetoclax the vaccine (or any vaccine?) may not work as well mayoclinic.org/drugs-supple... "While you are being treated with venetoclax, and after you stop treatment with it, do not have any immunizations (vaccines) without your doctor's approval. Venetoclax may lower your body's resistance and the vaccine may not work as well or you might get the infection the vaccine is meant to prevent."

Here's a study on venetoclax and otherwise fit CLLers that got covid-19 including comparison to those on other thereapies ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

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