Hubby is retired military (Go, Navy!), and neither one of us are getting the jab. The VA has sent him several letters and emails, encouraging him to get the vax. He talked to his PA about doing a blood test to check for antibodies since more and more doctors and medical professionals are saying natural immunity after contracting Covid is better than the vaccine. She told him the VA won't allow her to do it. When he asked why, she said they would rather he get the jab. Not much of an answer, I know, but her hands are essentially tied.
Fast forward a few weeks. Hubby went to a Fast Pace facility for a minor injury. The NP who works there lives in our neighborhood. They got to talking about Covid stuff, and he told her about the VA refusing to do an antibody test. She said, "I'll do it!'
Five days later, the results showed he still has antibodies from when we both had Covid last September. I decided to do the same, and my results were positive for antibodies as well.
I've been an RN for over 30 years. My understanding of most colds, flu, etc. is that you usually keep antibodies for that particular strain for 2-3 months, tops. The fact that ours are still in our systems for over a year makes me wonder if the theory about lifetime immunity to Covid may be true.
Has anyone else been tested for antibodies?
Yeah this is a deliberate lie told by the scientific community to push for vaccines. They do some trickery based on which kind of antibody they are talking about.
The neutralising antibodies (the ones that kill the toxins) stick around for around 2-3 months and after that they slowly disappear. This is common sense - you dont want these antibodies of every infection sticking around forever.
However the memory-antibodies - the ones that remember what to do when that particular toxin is encountered, stick around for even 10-20 years later, inside your lymphocytes. These are not detected by the anti-body test, so they can falsely claim that there are no antibodies after 2 months.
In your case, you were both lucky since you probably had a reinfection recently causing the memory-antibodies to create neutralising antibodies, and hence showed up in the test. If not, you would have been deemed no antibodies, even though your bodies are fully protected against Covid (and all the other variants, since natural abtibodies are broad targeting)
Thank you for the info!