Is There a Correlation Between Antibodies and Vaccines?

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A third dose of a vaccine can strengthen the protection that you have against coved nineten, or perhaps lengthen amount of time that you are protected against covin 19. The real question is whether or not that drop off in antibody tites overtime correlates to a drop in protection. And that's a difficult question to answer in many ways, especially because we still don't really have a correlate of protection. This is all to say there's a ton of light complicating factors that makes each of those studies really hard to interpret.

Several wealthy nations have announced plans to give third vaccine doses in a bid to help increase the protection of their most vulnerable citizens - but the science is not clear on whether this strategy will be effective or indeed necessary. Meanwhile with limited vaccine supplies - billions around the world still have no access to vaccines at all. In this episode of Coronapod we discuss the science of boosters, the stark reality of vaccine disparity and what this means for the future of the pandemic.

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