PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hendrik Schulze-Koops
AU  - Christof Specker
AU  - Alla Skapenko
TI  - Vaccination of patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases against SARS-CoV-2: considerations before widespread availability of the vaccines
AID  - 10.1136/rmdopen-2020-001553
DP  - 2021 Feb 01
TA  - RMD Open
PG  - e001553
VI  - 7
IP  - 1
4099  - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/e001553.short
4100  - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/e001553.full
SO  - RMD Open2021 Feb 01; 7
AB  - Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 has become available and will hopefully end the current pandemic. Understandably, patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (iRMDs) and their physicians are feverishly preoccupied with questions about vaccination and the vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. However, as it will take months before all patients with iRMDs will have access to the vaccines, measures that are taken now in order to increase potential safety and efficacy of the vaccines may impose a risk for the patients with regard to reactivation of their underlying iRMD. The ad hoc commission ‘Covid-19’ and the board of directors of the German Society for Rheumatology have addressed this topic and have developed considerations, which are intended to answer urgent questions, to take away concerns and fears and to make initial recommendations for patients with iRMDs.