TY - JOUR T1 - Point of view on the vaccination against COVID-19 in patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases JF - RMD Open JO - RMD Open DO - 10.1136/rmdopen-2021-001594 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - e001594 AU - Victoria Furer AU - Christien Rondaan AU - Nancy Agmon-Levin AU - Sander van Assen AU - Marc Bijl AU - Meliha Crnkic Kapetanovic AU - Annette de Thurah AU - Ulf Mueller-Ladner AU - Daphna Paran AU - Karen Schreiber AU - Klaus Warnatz AU - Nico M Wulffraat AU - Ori Elkayam Y1 - 2021/02/01 UR - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/e001594.abstract N2 - In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an unmet clinical need for the guidelines on vaccination of patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIIRD). This position paper summarises the current data on COVID-19 infection in patients with AIIRD and development of vaccines against COVID-19, discusses the aspects of efficacy and safety of vaccination, and proposes preliminary considerations on vaccination against COVID-19 in patients with AIIRD, mainly based on the expert opinion and knowledge on the use of other vaccines in this population of patients. ER -