After COVID Infection, Antibodies Highly Protective for Months, Prospective Study Shows

December 23, 2020

(Medscape) – After infection with SARS-CoV-2, antibodies protect most healthcare workers from reinfection for up to 6 months, results of the first prospective study of the subject reveal. The main message for healthcare workers is, “if you’ve had COVID, at least in the short term, you are unlikely to get it again,” David Eyre, senior author, associate professor at the Big Data Institute and infectious diseases clinician at the University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, told Medscape Medical News.