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Methotrexate study to be carried out

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"About 1.3 million people in the UK are on methotrexate........ A previous study from Korea showed that a fortnight's break from methotrexate immediately after the flu vaccine increased the patients' immune response to that jab. ......The University of Nottingham researchers.....will recruit 560 methotrexate patients.......Although the Vroom study will take one to two years to complete, .....

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Has any study been done on Prednisolone?

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Interesting, but two years!

covid19.nih.gov/news-and-st.... Hence, third primary dose and booster.

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I'm a bit taken aback at the time they are quoting - hardly a lack of subjects you'd have thought. As for pred - even more willing subjects on pred you might have thought!

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