Associated Press
Emily Schubert, the employee health nurse at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska, prepares a COVID-19 vaccine shot on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Front-line health care workers are among the first in Alaska to receive the vaccine.
It will be months before the general public can get vaccinated against COVID-19. But those who’ve recovered from it are believed to have antibodies offering protection from the virus.
KERA’s Sam Baker talked about how long antibody and vaccine protection lasts with Dr. Robert Gottlieb of Baylor, Scott and White Hospital System. He led clinical trials in North Texas on the COVID treatment, Remdesivir, and is researching a COVID-19 vaccine for Johnson and Johnson.