Covid infection gives you an increase in immunity, but until when?
Coronavirus antibodies from infection can last for at least six months for most (88%) people who have had the virus, according to a UK-based Biobank study. The researchers said the results showed that antibodies produced after a natural infection could "provide a degree of protection for most people".
According to analysis from the Zoe Covid Study app, 81% of participants who did an antibody test after a Covid-19 infection tested positive for anti-N antibodies - antibodies obtained from a natural infection, not from vaccination.
Professor Paul Hunter, an infectious disease expert at the University of East Anglia, says: “Infection - whether with Omicron or any other variant - will boost immunity. "That immunity will be better against the same variant, but it will also increase immunity to other less powerful variants."
A serological analysis for the level of antibodies will show more accurately the degree of protection and consult your family doctor about the time when you should be vaccinated after you have been cured by Covid.
