• My wife had the Pfizer jab yesterday at a clinic in Bermondsey - she’s NHS and classed as at risk because she has a suppressed immune system due to her medication for psoriatic arthritis. She’s 53. I’m 58, but I’m going to have to wait for at least 3 months even though I’m classed as an essential worker, so we’re both going to carry on as we have been for months and keeping ourselves as isolated as we can. Would be an arseache to go and catch Covid within sight of the finish line.

  • As someone on psoriasis meds that's interesting. AIUI the heavyweight treatments for psoriasis/arthritis are immunosuppressive, but they seem to be protective against severe outcomes from Covid; the disease inflammatory response/cytokine storm is what's most dangerous, and is related to the mechanisms that the immunosuppressive drugs are targeting.

  • She did research it first, as she can’t have live vaccines, but none of the Covid vaccines are. She also contacted her consultant who advised her that it would not be an issue.

    My wife takes Methatrexate and a generic Humira drug, if that means anything to you?

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