Marit J. van Gils and colleagues investigate antibody responses against diverse emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants induced by four different SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in health care workers in the Netherlands.
and there s more mystery of why certain people can be exposed multiple times whenever you can get an infection and never have an antibody response. that s likely very rare and we don t have that case cracked yet but a lot of work is being done to unravel. it s extraordinary, isn t it? in some families one person gets it and others don t. further down the road, we will learn more. doctor, perhaps it is the less severe subvariant of omicron. but most people have now become more relaxed about the possibility of getting infected. no longer wearing masks and being more comfortable in crowds. many of those perhaps because they re vaccinated. when you look at where the world and the pandemic, going in and out of cycles of infection, when do you think we ll fully emerge from the pandemic and what do
kids, very little kids, they are looking at weather the vaccine produces immune antibody response. that is not good enough to me. they need to show clinical benefit to children, so the clinical benefit would be prevention of severe disease, hospitalization, death, something clinically meaningful. showing antibody response doesn t give fda approving this. there hasn t been evidence of clinical benefit. i hope the fda makes moderna go back to the drawing board and give better evidence before we say to american parents this is right to do. todd: child in wisconsin died of suspect hepatitis infection.
working to answer one of the most common questions of the pandemic. how much protection does a previous covid infection provide? vaccine response, you may have all individuals that have a vaccine high antibody responses. reporter: take a look at this graph of people who have immunity from a prior infection. see how varied the blue dots and lines are? they represent the antibody response. it s all over the place. it is proof, he says, that not all infections are the same. but with vaccines, a much more predictable, consistent antibody response. but how do you use that data to make decisions in the real world? especially now that states have loosened measures like mask and vaccine mandates. if i were to get my antibodies checked, could i then get some sort of measure of just how protected i am? there aren t good correlates