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AAN Releases Position Statement on COVID-19 Vaccine

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eMediNexus    04 August 2021

According to a paper released by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), neurologists must recommend their patients to get COVID-19 vaccination, based on current evidence.

Except for the rare situation of an absolute contraindication to the currently available vaccines, AAN’s formal position states that people who are eligible should be offered the COVID-19 vaccine, stated Elisabeth Marsh, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and members of the AAN Quality Committee, in the journal Neurology. The committee members stated that special consideration about timing of vaccination should be given to people with multiple sclerosis (MS) or myasthenia gravis who are undergoing immunotherapy… (Medpage Today)

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