{"slug":"vaccination","tag":"vaccination","variants":["vaccination"],"description":"No description yet","count":2,"kinds":{"technology":2},"related":[{"slug":"rejuvenation","tag":"rejuvenation","shared":2},{"slug":"survivorship","tag":"survivorship","shared":2},{"slug":"immune","tag":"immune","shared":1},{"slug":"infection","tag":"infection","shared":1},{"slug":"transplant","tag":"transplant","shared":1}],"records":[{"id":"rejuv-frontier-immune-reconstitution","kind":"technology","name":"Rebuilding the immune system after treatment","route":"/technologies/rejuv-frontier-immune-reconstitution/","status":"standard-of-care","tldr":"Chemotherapy, a transplant and CAR-T empty out the immune system, and rebuilding it takes months to years. Blood counts come back before protection does: the antibodies built up over a lifetime, from childhood jabs and from infections, are largely lost after a transplant. Re-vaccination puts them back, on a published schedule."},{"id":"rejuv-tx-revaccination","kind":"technology","name":"Revaccination after transplant: the schedules, and where the UK and the US differ","route":"/technologies/rejuv-tx-revaccination/","status":"standard-of-care","tldr":"A transplant erases the protection built up by a lifetime of vaccinations, including childhood ones, and it has to be rebuilt. Published schedules exist, the vaccines are free at the point of use in the NHS, and the usual failure is that nobody writes the plan down. If you have had a transplant and have no written schedule, ask for one."}]}