A 78-year-old vaccinated New Yorker, who takes a drug that suppresses his immune system, discusses getting an underground dose of the Johnson & Johnson shot
Photo-Illustration: by Intelligencer; Photo Getty Images Editor’s note: The following account comes from a New Yorker, age 78, who has a chronic illness requiring regular injections of Humira, a drug that suppresses the immune system. He is therefore more vulnerable to COVID-19 than most people and less able to respond to vaccination and thus build immunity.
I don’t remember which of us brought up the idea of an extra shot. My gastroenterologist said he was not permitted to authorize it but would support it if I tried. He didn’t suggest I do it then — it was “wait and see what happens” — and I didn’t go for it right away. It was early in the spring when he ran this test, and we hadn’t finished giving a lot of shots and we didn’t have the Delta variant.
I wanted to get the Pfizer vaccine, and I was in another state, not New York, last month. I didn’t lie. The people at the hospital system there are really good — well organized. They had me in the same computer system and asked me whether I’ve had shots, and I said, “Yes, but they didn’t take,” and they said, “You can’t have it.” I waited for another break from the Humira a month later and went to a pharmacy, which I knew would be sloppy. They didn’t ask.
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