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Health care workers who contracted COVID-19 and then got the vaccine had higher antibody levels than those who only got their shots, a new study suggests.
Researchers compared medical employees who caught the virus before getting their first dose to those who had no history of previous infection.
They found that antibody levels generated in patients with a past case of Covid were up to 56 percent higher than those who had never contracted the virus.
What's more, the team, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, found that antibody levels were boosted even further if the worker had tested positive for COVID-19 more than 90 days before being vaccinated.
A new study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine compared vaccinated health care workers with and without a past case of COVID-19. Pictured: Dentist Monique Iskarous (left) receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from registered nurse Darlene Dickens-Jeffers, r in Anaheim, California, January 2021
Employees who had previously been infected had antibody levels 14% higher than those with a past confirmed infection one month after the second dose. After three months, levels were 19% higher and levels were 56% higher after six months
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