And another thing about COVID and multiple myeloma patients
Yesterday we were discussing how a disease like multiple myeloma almost certainly made Colin Powell susceptible to dying from COVID despite having been vaccinated. Now I see there’s even more to it:
Patients with active chronic lymphocytic leukemia or multiple myeloma mounted lower antibody responses to mRNA COVID-19 vaccination than healthy individuals, according to data from two reports published in Blood.
The findings suggested the lower antibody response may be a result of both the cancer and its treatments…
“Patients with CLL are predisposed to develop infections due to inherent immune defects related to their primary disease and as a result of therapy. The mechanisms underlying the immunodeficiency in CLL may also reduce response to vaccines,” Herishanu told Healio. “We found that the antibody response to BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in patients with CLL is markedly impaired and affected by disease activity and treatment.”
Double or triple whammy.
Yeah, I have a cousin recovering from a successful bone marrow transplant for leukemia, and I worry about her.
The truth is that the vaccinations may not protect those among us who are most vulnerable. We should be prescribing the generic off-label drugs that seem to help, and pushing hard on more therapeutics.
Anyone know how much time had passed between Powell’s second vaccine shot and when he passed away?
jeez, maybe if they’d given him aspirin, or ivermectin, or hydroxychloroquine,,,
If someone steps off a bus and gets run over and killed by a truck, yet had tested positive for covid (however, expressing zero symptoms), well, that person must have died from covid related causes.
Colin Powell already was seriously ill; if he had caught a “conventional ” flu (i.e., if there was no such thing as covid), and died, would the media claim he died from the flu?
Most likely not; they would have identified his serious pre-existing illness as the primary cause of death,.
Those who have seriously compromised immune systems can die from an ailment that generally is not life threatening at all.
But, in today’s up is down, right is wrong world, the idea of reporting the news free of propaganda, wokeness, or other left wing garbage , is not to be expected.
Geoffrey Britain, I read somewhere (possibly the Daily Mail) that Powell had been about to get his booster before he became ill with COVID.
I am not sure that Multiple Myeloma causes immune deficiency except as part of the late debilitation. CLL definitely does, however.
The thing is, people whose immune systems are that compromised, are going to be killed by the next serious illness that comes along. It used to be the flu or pneumonia.
As a MM patient myself, diagnosed in 2019, I volunteered for antibody testing after getting vaccinated. I seem to have a very low antibody response. We’ll see if it’s any better after the booster shot.
I’m pretty sure, Mike K, that I haven’t reached “late debilitation” yet, as I’m still quite healthy. But my ears did prick up when I heard that Colin Powell had been dealing with MM. Sure, he’s got a couple of decades on me, but I’m not sure that’s enough to do the trick.
So I’m doing what the specialists in MM are advising: “Get vaccinated, and act unvaccinated”.
And Roy, you’re absolutely right.
I checked into the ER with a fever two days before Christmas in 2019. I had the beginnings of pneumonia, and apparently a bit of sepsis, due to having a strain of flu the flu vaccine didn’t hit. So my Christmas present from the hospital was an overnight stay for observation, Albuterol every four hours, and a nebulizer to take home for the rest of my doses of Albuterol. I had been told a fever was nothing to f**k around with, and they were right.
Re: leukemia & bone marrow transplant for same. People who have transplants of *any” kind take immunosuppressive medications permanently, to prevent their body’s immune system from rejecting the transplant. (I used to work in oncology). I have difficulty understanding why it was recommended that cancer patients (during treatment, therefore also immune suppressed) have the vaccines, but particularly transplant patients. I’ve seen at least one kidney transplant patient have some pretty bad vaccination effects