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some viewers were asking us what provides more immunity to the coronavirus recovering from covid19 or the vaccine news 4 tucson’s priscilla casper is getting answers the arizona department of health services reports monday more than 561 thousand people in the state have tested positive for kova 19 since last january and so far more than 90 thousand people in arizona have been vaccinated some viewers wanted to know does immunity after getting covet 19 last longer than protection from a covid vaccine deeptap acharya an associate professor of immunobiology at the university of arizona said that since the vaccines have just begun to be administered they don’t really know the answer to this question at this time what he can say though is quote after infection there is a huge degree of variability in how many antibodies someone makes this seems to correlate with how severe the symptoms were people who have recovered from severe disease make a lot of antibodies and it will likely take a long time for those to decline to a point where you are no longer protected he says that people who recovered from mild disease make fewer antibodies and people that were asymptomatic make even less in regards to the vaccines he says everything seems more uniform that quote based on early data from moderna i would be very surprised at the antibodies after two shots dropped below the protective threshold in less than a year i expect the pfizer vaccine will behave similarly meanwhile the centers for disease control reports current evidence suggests that reinfection with the coronavirus is uncommon in the 90 days after the initial infection however the cdc still needs more data regarding vaccine immunity to see how well it works if you have a question about the coronavirus email getting answers at kvoa.com we’ve got you covered priscilla casper news 4 tucson
