What to know about antibody tests in a post-vaccine world

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The CDC is warning against using commercial tests to determine immunity.

But scientists are still searching for a so-called"correlate of protection" -- a marker in the blood that would reliably indicate protection. And they don't necessarily think it's antibodies. That means the presence of antibodies -- or even more specific antibody levels -- does not necessarily correlate with a person's level of protection.

The Food and Drug Administration strongly warns against antibody tests as a way to check for immunity among people who are fully vaccinated, writing in May that"currently authorized SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests should not be used to evaluate a person's level of immunity or protection from COVID-19 at any time, and especially after the person has received a COVID-19 vaccination."

"What we generally think is that all of the vaccines get you to high-enough levels where even if they wane, you're still protected against hospitalization," Ellerin said."Because the vaccines have done such a great job, all of them, at preventing hospitalizations, we think, based on some of the modeling studies, that you only need 3% of your average neutralizing antibody response to keep you out of the hospital.

 

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WHAT?! Read that again and over again!! Why is the flu way down The CDC just admitted on 7/21 that their PCR test does not distinguish between the Flu or Covid. It is ALL Covid. Wow. Did you hear about this in the media?! We are still waiting.

Science has become laughable. It has been lies all along. Keep the vaccine for yourself,it kills.

Yup, only trust the government. 🙄

The only real immunity you will have if you get vaccinated.

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But they've been OK with PCR tests?

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