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Prior treatment with cancer drug likely renders COVID-19 vaccine ineffective, study finds

People who have been treated with rituximab, a widely used cancer drug, or similar drugs respond poorly or not at all to subsequent COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, according to a study by researchers at Stanford Medicine.