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Impact Of Serum Igg Levels Against Sars-Cov-2 On Clinical Outcomes For Hopitalized Covid Patient, Bipin Ghimire, Bijaya Thapa, Nishant Aggarwal, Luai Madanat, Melinda Sager, Daniel O'Connor, Alexandra Halalau
Impact Of Serum Igg Levels Against Sars-Cov-2 On Clinical Outcomes For Hopitalized Covid Patient, Bipin Ghimire, Bijaya Thapa, Nishant Aggarwal, Luai Madanat, Melinda Sager, Daniel O'Connor, Alexandra Halalau
Conference Presentation Abstracts
BACKGROUND: The SAR-CoV-2 pandemic continues to negatively impact the healthcare system globally with over 800,000 deaths in the United States and millions more worldwide. The cases are rising despite availability of vaccines. For most immunocompetent patients these vaccines will generate a humoral response and also a memory T-cell response. Few if any studies have reported data that measure anti-spike IgG titers and also correlate those titers with clinical outcomes in the instance of breakthrough infection.
METHODS: We conducted a pilot prospective observational clinical study enrolling 30 immunocompetent patients who were admitted with a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR. Leftover blood from admission …