Pos-914 Covid-19 Disease Behaviour on 700 Chronic Hemodialysis Patients From Ecuadorian Highlands. Did Massive Vaccination Change the Trend?
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: After more than one year of COVID-9 disease and 223.369.412 cases with 4.608.983 deaths worldwide and 504.781 cases with 32.391 deaths in Ecuador, massive vaccination programs have started with 5.619.227.616 vaccines applied worldwide nowadays. Vaccines have proven to be effective diminishing transmission, contagious rate, and disease severity in healthy population with standard vaccination schemes. Hemodialysis patients (HD) are highly comorbid and immunosupressed population, factors that have been related with less efficacy of regular vaccination schemes in this patients when compared with healthy population.
Source: Kidney International Reports
Authors: J. SANTACRUZ, A. Vasquez, P. Reinoso, P. Arévalo, G. Santacruz, C. Santacruz
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,625
OpenAlex ID: W4213389448