Covid vaccine

I am taking Remicade and got my Pfizer booster shot on 8/16/21. This was specifically due to the CDC guidelines on persons being immunocompromised by biologics:

"People are considered moderately to severely immunocompromised if they are/have:

• Active treatment for solid tumor and hematologic malignancies
• Receipt of solid-organ transplant and taking immunosuppressive therapy
• Receipt of CAR-T-cell or hematopoietic stem cell transplant (within two years of transplantation or taking immunosuppression therapy)
• Moderate or severe primary immunodeficiency (e.g., DiGeorge syndrome, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome)
• Advanced or untreated HIV infection
• Active treatment with high-dose corticosteroids (i.e., ≥20mg prednisone or equivalent per day), alkylating agents, antimetabolites, transplant-related immunosuppressive drugs, cancer chemotherapeutic agents classified as severely immunosuppressive, tumor-necrosis (TNF) blockers, and other biologic agents that are immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory."

Active treatment with Remicade qualifies under the above bolded section.

The guidelines are fairly clear on what constitutes "immunocompromised." It's not a subjective definition. I did explain to Walgreens both verbally and in the paperwork they gave me the basis for why I am immunocompromised.

I got the booster on a walk in to Walgreen's. The vaccination card is required.

Those guidelines were adopted by means of an order of the Governor of Connecticut and my booster was given pursuant to that executive order. I posted about that order and the specifics of it in this thread:

https://www.j-pouch.org/topic/...5#675601300114437755

Thank you very much, CT.  Very helpful.

My understanding is that UC by itself is not a qualifier for being immune compromised. Something like AIDS is because it is an immune deficiency. UC is an overactive immune system. Folks like CT and myself take drugs that suppress the immune system. I am on Imuran and Inflectra.

That said, when I got my 3rd vaccine shot, I did not have to show proof of qualifying. It was self attestation.

Jan

Thanks Jan.   Very helpful!