Assertion: antibody | /r/HasProperty | protective
Facets:
value: compared to the antibodies
type: OTHER
value: fully
type: DEGREE
value: against a second infection
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: from reinfection
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Are the antibodies actually protective?
text: For example, we don’t yet know that just because someone has developed antibodies, that they are fully protected from reinfection, or how long any immunity lasts.
text: We have no idea if production of antibodies during a primary infection, for example, has any role in clearing virus during that infection, or for that matter, we don’t have any good data on whether antibodies produced during an infection are protective against a second infection,” she says.
text: The results of plasma therapies—which extract antibodies from recovered patients and administer them to patients battling severe forms of COVID-19—may offer some clues as to whether antibodies are protective, at least in the short term.
text: We don’t know whether the antibodies that individual A has produced that react on this test are protective compared to the antibodies that individual B might come up with,” adds Spindler.
text: Some antibodies are protective, while others merely serve as markers of disease, David Grenache, PhD, president-elect of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) and chief scientific officer of TriCore Reference Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, tells Health.
text: If antibodies were protective, fewer patients in the antibody group would develop infection," she said.