According to University Health\u2019s Director of Hospital Epidemiology, Dr. Jason Bowling, antibodies from a previous COVID-19 infection will not protect you against the delta variant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019ve learned over the last few months is that people that have had prior infection with COVID-19 and then developed natural immunity–antibodies from natural infection–unfortunately are not protected against this new delta variant, which is causing the number of cases we\u2019re seeing now,\u201d Bowling said\u00a0in a video interview<\/a>\u00a0released Friday. \u201cPrior infection, unfortunately, does not confer good protection against this delta variant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe prior strain was different than this current strain, which is more virulent, transmits more readily, and so you will not be protected with natural infection alone,\u201d Bowling said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to University Health\u2019s Director of Hospital Epidemiology, Dr. Jason Bowling, antibodies from a previous COVID-19 infection will not protect you against the delta variant. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve learned over the last few months is that people that have had prior infection with COVID-19 and then developed natural immunity–antibodies from natural infection–unfortunately are not protected against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6718,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions\/6718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}