What s the difference between being vaccinated and having COVID antibodies?
How much immunity do recovered people have versus people who are vaccinated? Dr. Thomas Russo of the University at Buffalo helps answer some questions. Author: WGRZ Staff Updated: 11:14 PM EDT May 26, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. With so many events now requiring COVID vaccinations, there are a lot of questions surrounding the difference between being vaccinated and having COVID antibodies from the virus itself.
Dr. Thomas Russo, the chief of infectious diseases at the University at Buffalo, joined 2 On Your Side s Maryalice Demler to help answers some questions.
Maryalice
: Dr. Russo, a lot of people are wondering about why they have to be vaccinated to be immune, especially if they ve recovered from the virus, so let s talk about that. First, how much immunity do recovered people have versus people who are vaccinated?
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Graduate students Esther Monroe (left) and Nishit Shetty carry out droplet experiments using a custom-built environmental rotating chamber. A team of researchers at Washington University is developing devices to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 in the air. (Photo: Rajan Chakrabarty)
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As the COVID-19 pandemic surged last summer and contact tracers struggled to identify sources of infections, John Cirrito, PhD, associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Carla Yuede, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, began to kick around an idea. Could a biosensor they’d developed years ago for Alzheimer’s disease be converted into a detector for the virus that causes COVID-19?
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Graduate students Esther Monroe (left) and Nishit Shetty carry out droplet experiments using a custom-built environmental rotating chamber. A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are developing devices to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 in the air.
As the COVID-19 pandemic surged last summer and contact tracers struggled to identify sources of infections, John Cirrito, PhD, an associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Carla Yuede, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry, began to kick around an idea. Could a biosensor they’d developed years ago for Alzheimer’s disease be converted into a detector for the virus that causes COVID-19?
Worrisome new coronavirus variants can evade antibodies that neutralize original virus, recent lab research shows
March 8, 2021
Physician assistant Philana Liang prepares a vial of COVID-19 vaccine on the Washington University Medical Campus. New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found that new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 can evade antibodies that work against the original form of the virus that sparked the pandemic, potentially undermining the effectiveness of vaccines and antibody-based drugs now being used to prevent or treat COVID-19.
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New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that three new, fast-spreading variants of the virus that cause COVID-19 can evade antibodies that work against the original form of the virus that sparked the pandemic. With few exceptions, whether such antibodies were produced in response to vaccination or natural infection, or w