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LisaL

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26. I believe there is a way to test your antibody levels.

Reply to Fresh_Start (Reply #19)

Mon Jun 14, 2021, 10:33 AM

Jun 2021

To see how effective your vaccination was. My understanding is that some people don't develop high antibody levels even after vaccination with mRNA.
So the antibody level would presumably be more predictive of immunity than the kind of vaccine one received.

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