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Originally Posted by TwistedChief
My mother has severe respiratory issues and is labeled 'immunocompromised.' She's had both shots of the Moderna vaccine. My father wanted to double check on her antibody level so they both got tested. My father's antibodies came back ~180 while my mother's were <0.8. I.e., it was essentially as if my mother had never taken the vaccine in the first place. There's only one study out there, but it seems like the vaccine (at least the mRNA versions of Moderna/Pfizer) only stick with about 1 in 5 people who are immunocompromised.
My mother did nothing wrong. She did everything right. She's just vulnerable and may be for the rest of her life. I'll wear a mask for quite some time until the covid incidence rate falls meaningfully to protect people like her.
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What test did they take? Many of the antibody tests available are notoriously unreliable