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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Who should we believe?
Saw the Doc yesterday as a follow-up to my physical exam three weeks ago. He verified that I had antibodies from both my bout with COVID as well as from the vaccinations I had this past June. He said that the antibodies I had from the actual bout with COVID were by far the more powerful, and that "you could go to Africa now and let people breathe on you and be perfectly safe".
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Whoa there Hoss, I wouldn't be booking that safari just yet:
1) Unless there is a new, commercially available antibody test that was released in the last 3 weeks, the "antibody test" only measures antibody to the original spike protein, but there may be as many as a dozen or more antibodies involved in conferring immunity.
2) And that does not take the new omicron variant into account, of which little is known (yet)
3) So far, the vaccines have been pretty good at preventing spread (although that fades as the people who got the vaccine first are losing immunity due to the time span, at least until more people get boosters), and pretty good at preventing serious illness or death, each new variant is an unknown vis a vis the vaccines are concerned.
4) Without being overly critical(
), as a retired professor of Internal Medicine at a major NY university and Chief of Staff at a 400 bed hospital, IMHO(
), the statement about Africa by your physician seems a bit reckless (put politely)