Cancer patients should get vaccine priority: experts

Reuters - 21/12/2020 - Cancer patients who get COVID-19 are at high risk for poor outcomes, so they should be considered for priority access to COVID-19 vaccines, according to The American Association for Cancer Research's COVID-19 and Cancer Task Force.

The task force reviewed the available data on fatality rates of patients with cancer who developed COVID-19 and based their recommendation on 28 publications; their position paper was published in the AACR journal Cancer Discovery.

SOURCE: https://bit.ly/2Jce4ao Cancer Discovery, online December 19, 2020.

By Reuters Staff

 

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Posted on 21 December, 202022 December, 2020