Scientists investigating the virus have said that antibodies last up to ten months based on SARS-CoV-2 infection. This period comes as longer than other studies that estimate six to eight months once infected.
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches towards the end of its second year, there s still much we don t know and a lot we re still learning about the antibodies we produce in response to SARS-CoV-2.
Antibodies after a Covid infection remain about 10 months in the body and generate a strong response to future infection from their own variant, but the antibodies were found less effective when fighting against different variants, finds a .
While antibodies from a specific SARS-CoV-2 variant were able to generate a strong response to an infection from their own variant, results showed that antibodies were less effective when fighting against different variants.