Can people with higher COVID antibody levels wait to get their booster shot? Here's what some doctors in southern California recommend.
Omicron continues to break previous daily highs for case rates in California due to its transmissibility.
"I'm here to get an antibody test to see where my levels are," she said."I feel like if my antibodies are high enough then I don't need to get the booster." USC Verdugo Hills Pharmacist Elizabeth Khatchaturian said 95% of the people she's tested have waning antibodies at six months, but not everyone.So can people with higher antibody levels wait to get their booster shot?
"When you do start seeing more and more breakthrough infections, even if they're just mild infections, that tells you that your level of immunity is going down," he said.
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