{"id":17325,"date":"2021-07-09T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T08:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17325"},"modified":"2021-07-09T08:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T08:25:36","slug":"why-was-an-antibody-test-negative-after-having-covid-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17325","title":{"rendered":"Why was an antibody test negative after having COVID vaccines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Your body can make many different types of antibodies from the same virus.<\/p>\n<p>Antibodies produced after an infection are different to those produced by the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>The tests for infection are only designed to detect responses to natural infection. A negative result tells you nothing about your immune response to a vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>This info on the US CDC website explains in more detail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><em>Antibody testing is not currently recommended to assess immunity after COVID-19 vaccination: FDA safety communication. (19 May 2021).<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/safety-communications\/antibody-testing-not-currently-recommended-assess-immunity-after-covid-19-vaccination-fda-safety\">https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/safety-communications\/antibody-testing-not-currently-recommended-assess-immunity-after-covid-19-vaccination-fda-safety<\/a><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;ve had two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and after a few weeks I used a home antibody test and the result was negative. I thought the vaccines are supposed to produce antibodies? Does this mean the vaccines didn&#8217;t work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}