“...Yes I have been checked for antibodies — they have been negative. Recalling that antibodies only exist in a narrow window of six weeks. Per our occupational health, having had the illness is not a contraindication to vaccination. If one considers being vaccinated after wild type illness, it simply becomes a booster.....”
Thank you so much for the great information and update.
The above post was kinda what I was looking for. I’m a 70-year old male with no underlying conditions that contracted it back in September. As soon as I started having symptoms, I got tested...positive. It was 12 days of misery but I made it through. I fought it with vitamins C, D3, K2, Quercetin, zinc citrate, and NAC...and a lot of Tylenol and DripDrop Hydration powder for dehydration. It never did get deep into my lungs...thank the Lord, but it was a pretty miserable fever, muscle aches galore, diarrhea...well, being a doc treating this nasty stuff, you definitely know all the symptoms.
So IF I’m reading the above correctly, any natural antibodies that I may have developed as a result of having this, only last about 6 weeks or so....meaning I could contract it again? And getting the vaccine would be a booster to any antibodies that I may have left?
No — what we have discovered is the antibodies from the acute phase disease only stay around 3 months or so. But there is excellent basic science literature to demonstrate that there is T-cell (memory) immunity. This is a big deal. This is what confers life long immunity. If after 3 months people were again susceptible we would see it all over the place and particularly the media as it would be used to eviscerate President trump.
There have been rare reports of possible reinfection, all of which are disproved
The vaccine itself is 95% effective precisely because it generates T-cell immunity. That was the most exciting finding in Phase II and III clinical trials.
I advised my 80 something year old mother who had the wild type disease not to bother getting vaccinated.
Our research on campus showed that covid antibodies hang around AT LEAST 6 weeks. The study was done on young healthy students. The study went silent with speculation being that results went all over the place and the students got sent home after Thanksgiving.