I have been vaccinated for Covid. Now what?
Congratulations. You have taken a step towards being protected and towards the threshold of living without the fear of Covid-19 affliction. But you are not there yet. An elder of my family recently wrote to me stating that he had himself tested for antibodies to the coronavirus a month after having been fully vaccinated. The result came back as disappointingly low level of antibodies. So he asked: What am I supposed to do now? Nothing different that you have been doing all along, I said. The same standard operating principals: Maintain social distance, cover face and nose and hand hygiene. Since you don’t have a strong level of antibodies, you are not fully protected. Antibody testing after vaccination is not recommended by the CDC at this time. He was not happy to hear this but recognized that Covid-19 being a new infection and a pandemic, there was no one straight answer. No single action offers 100% protection, whereas the outc...