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Podcast: PeerView Internal Medicine CME/CNE/CPE Audio Podcast
Episode: Shmuel Shoham, MD / Ghady Haidar, MD - What’s New, and What’s Next? Customizing COVID-19 Prevention Approaches in Transplant Patients to Increase Uptake, Access, and Efficacy
Description: Go online to PeerView.com/ERY860 to view the activity, download slides and practice aids, and complete the post-test to earn credit. Hundreds of thousands of organ transplant recipients living in the United States, who must take immunosuppressive medication, are at an increased risk of COVID-19 infection. Tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab has lost its emergency use authorization as prevention for immunocompromised patients because of its lack of efficacy against newer variants. In the absence of prevention agents (other than vaccines) and because the prevention of COVID-19 is shifting to a more personalized, patient-specific approach, the complexity of clinical decision-making has...