An Australian-led study will examine COVID-19-positive patients who are also living with a compromised immune system to try to understand more about how the disease affects them.
ested positive for COVID-19 and are living with a compromised immune system from certain pre-existing diseases, or medications.
The study will enrol any patients who are COVID-19 positive and have a compromised immune system from a certain treatment or pre-existing condition.“Covid has turned everything on its head. A lot of our information is coming from social media, and first hand reports,” she said.Dr Withers said it makes this new research all the more important.
“It drives our feeling of wanting to get the best data available so we can tell them what their risk is, whether treatment might affect their risk and how severe the disease might be if they do catch it,” Dr Withers said.
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