Analysis: Yes You Need A Booster If You Had COVID And Got The Vaccine

Do You Need A Booster If You Had COVID And Got The Vaccine? If you have "natural" immunity and you've been vaccinated, here's what experts say you should do about additional shots. YahooNews

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From the get-go, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been pretty clear: You should get vaccinated even if you’ve already had COVID-19. You should also still get vaccinated if you happen to get COVID in between your two doses of the mRNA vaccines, though you should wait until you no longer have symptoms and you meet the CDC’s criteria for ending quarantine.

That’s because “natural” immunity simply doesn’t last all that long. “We know that antibody levels in people infected [with COVID] start to drop off fairly rapidly, they drop off within a month to two,” said Inessa Gendlina, director of infectious diseases at Montefiore Health System. ...