Winter Is Coming! Clinical, Immunologic, and Practical Considerations for Vaccinating Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic

As summer turns to fall, clinicians' minds usually turn to the upcoming winter season and preparing for winter infections, particularly influenza. In 2020, though, we face a new and formidable foe: the severe acute respiratory syndrome novel coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Although we hope that an effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 will soon be available, the distribution of an effective vaccine is not likely to occur soon, so it is especially appropriate to use the other tools already at our disposal to keep our patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) well.

Source: Gastroenterology - October 13, 2020 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Gil Y. Melmed, David T. Rubin, Dermot P.B. McGovern Tags: Commentary Source Type: research