We would like to thank everyone who completed the MPN COVID-19 vaccination survey in March. The survey was conducted by the teams at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital to assess the various aspects regarding COVID vaccines in people with MPNs, including their opinions and experiences regarding vaccination which is of major interest to aid future…
Researchers at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are carrying out research to investigate how patients with MPN and also CML respond to vaccination against Covid-19. They would like to recruit patients with a known MPN – who have either not yet received a second dose OR are less than 6 weeks from second…
The MPN Voice medical advisory committee wants to share with our community the following: Thrombosis associated with low platelets is an exceedingly rare event in patients receiving the Oxford-AZ COVID vaccine and causal relationship remains unclear. There are no confirmed reports of any specific platelet or thrombosis problems in MPN patients relating to the COVID…
After a careful review of the data, UK and International regulatory agencies confirmed yesterday (18.3.21) that the risk of blood clots after COVID vaccination is no greater than that seen in the general population at large. We encourage all MPN patients to get vaccinated and to continue their medications around the time of vaccination. There…
The MPN Voice response to the article published on 11th March 2021 on the BBC news channel regarding a study assessing the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine and cancer patients – ‘Cancer patients are much less protected against COVID-19 than other people after one dose of the Pfizer vaccine, the first real-world study in this…
We are aware that many of you are not on the Shielded Patient List and have been informed by your GP surgery that you will not be included in group 4 for the COVID vaccine. To be added to the shielded patient list by your GP you can take a copy of this ‘GP letter…