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Are there any links to studies that say antibodies produced from having covid only last 3-6 months?
by h3cate 5y ago
Are there any links to studies that say antibodies produced from having covid only last 3-6 months?
- da_chicken 5y agoHere's a recent study from this month: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joim.13372 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joim.13372 A quick scan says: * 13% of those with natural immunity "lost detectable IgG titers" after 10 months * Protection durability from the vaccine is still mostly unknown, but appears to be good for 2-3 years My anecdote is from 8 months ago, so I'm not surprised the data has been revised. I got my first dose of the vaccine less than a week after I'd recovered, which at the time was the recommendation of the CDC and health department. Less than three weeks after my first dose, they revised that to have people wait six to eight weeks.
- h3cate 5y agoStrange as vaccines were only starting to be rolled out 5 months ago and yet my country and already starting booster shots next month
- da_chicken 5y agoDid your country do a staged rollout where healthcare workers, the elderly, and the infirm were vaccinated first? That's how I got mine in January. I work at a public K-12, where our staff were vaccinated in Phase 1b.
- h3cate 5y agoYes frontline staff started getting them around January but the elderly are the ones getting the boosters over here and that was around March time if my memory serves correctly
- AndrewBissell 5y agoThe myopic focus on antibody levels is misplaced. We know that for Covid there are much broader forms of immune response which are not captured by antibody titers and are quite long lasting.