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Least not right now as far as moderna or j&j or pfizer, they re not specifically tweaked for the omicron variant, at least not yet. we know some of these companies are working on that. still, that does give you some level of protection from any variant, right? it does give us the level of protection. if you remember going back over a year ago, we were hoping for 50% effectiveness against the virus in the vaccine. we got to the high 90s and were happy with that. when the delta variant came along, the effectiveness dropped but it still protected against serious illness, hospitalizations, and death. that s what we think will happen here. once you get the booster, which is what dr. fauci explained, you go from an antibody load that s down here to one that is 30 to 40-fold higher. it can protect you with spillover effect. it can protect you from the variant. we can t constantly chase the variants around. we ve already had multiple variants in the year and a half we ve had the pandemic. ....
Where the virus really is running totally out of control, brian. doctor, i have a two-part question on antibodies. what do you make of people of means with the opportunity and the money to get antibody testing to determine whether they should get the third shot, the booster? and a second question on antibodies is this. if you had covid, maybe you knew about it, approximate maybe you don t, are you still walking around with the same antibody load as someone with a more virulent case? absolutely, brian. a lot of this is still being studied. as far as getting antibody tests are concerned, there s a lot of different ways of measuring how powerful and strong your immune system is. one of them is by getting the regular antibodies you can see in your bloodstream. but it really should be a particular kind, that s type related to the spike proteins. the other thing is that there s other elements of the ....
Question on antibodies. what do you make of people with means, with the opportunity and money to get antibody testing to determine whether they should get the third shot, the booster? and the second question on antibodies is this. if you had covid, maybe you knew about it, maybe not, but you are asymptomatic are you still walking around with the same antibody load as someone who survived a more virulent case? absolutely ryan. a lot of this is really start not known. it s still being studied. as far as antibodies are concerned, there are a lot of ways of measuring of how strong your immune system is. one is getting the regular antibiotics you can see in the bloodstream. but that is the type related to the spike proteins. the other thing is that there are other elements of the resistance of the immune system that will not show up in ....