People previously infected with the coronavirus may get a significant boost in immunity if they follow up with vaccination, doctor says.
“There really is this dramatic increase in immunity in people who’ve previously been infected if they get at least one dose of vaccine,” said Shane Crotty, a professor of immunology at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California., it’s literally 100 times better levels of antibodies after vaccination compared to before for somebody with natural immunity,” Crotty said. “That’s not a small change.
has found vaccination led to increased levels of neutralizing antibodies against variant forms of the coronavirus in people who had been previously infected. These modified spike proteins were tested in lab dishes against antibodies from people who had recovered from Covid-19, from those who had been vaccinated and from those who had hybrid immunity. The spike proteins were able to evade the antibodies from the first two groups, but not antibodies from people with hybrid immunity.
Both vaccine-induced immunity and natural infection turn on memory B cells’ antibody-generating abilities. But
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