
33. B-Cell Depleting Therapies and COVID-19
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The Effects of Immunosuppressive Drugs on COVID and Severe Outcomes
A lot of work done by the COVID-19 GRA and also additional work in from Jeff Sparks and Zach Wallace. I think it was pretty clear that probably the biggest threat were going to be these B-cell depleting therapies for RA, LUPIS, MS. The other aspect here was this increased disease activity slash prednisone utilization. Obviously, those two are intrinsically linked to one another and statistically difficult to uncouple.
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