{"id":16620,"date":"2021-01-08T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T11:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=16620"},"modified":"2021-02-07T18:44:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T18:44:39","slug":"can-hiv-health-workers-safely-have-the-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/16620","title":{"rendered":"Can HIV+ health workers safely have the COVID-19 vaccine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Hi<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Thanks for your question and for letting us post the answer online.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">COVID vaccines are very safe for HIV positive people. If you are a key worker that gets offered the vaccine, this is strongly recommended.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Being HIV positive is also included as a medical reason for getting the vaccine (in priority group 6 and possible also group 4.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The vaccines are also still recommended even if you already had COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>There are about 60 other Q&amp;As about the COVID vaccines at this link<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><strong>Q&amp;As on COVID vaccines: safety, effective, dosing, ethnicity, chemsex?<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/16330\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/16330<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the services you are providing through your work at this difficult time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Please also get in touch if you have other questions.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are there any concerns with HIV+ people receiving a COVID-19 vaccination offered in the UK? <\/p>\n<p>I am an NHS patient-facing worker so may be offered vaccination soon, possibly among the first wave of vaccinations. <\/p>\n<p>My CD4 count is good, and I have already caught (and had a positive anitbody test for) COVID. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}