Question from a commentator:
Having been ill, she signed up for the State Services for the analysis of determining the amount of antibodies. The proposed recording form before signing up for analysis throws out a warning that the analysis does not show the amount of antibodies after vaccination. Do you know why? Does the vaccine give no antibodies or the test method does not show?
I myself was not sick, and I do not have such an opportunity on the portal. Well, or something I misunderstand.
The vaccine produces antibodies. Most likely, the method of analysis that you are offered does not show antibodies after the vaccine.
Antibodies to S-protein
After vaccination, only a certain part of the antibodies should be watched - antibodies to the S-protein of the virus. These are the very spines or spike proteins with which the virus clings to our cells.
There is usually no need to test these antibodies.
That is, according to the official position of various serious medical organizations, an ordinary person does not need to check antibodies either before or after vaccination.
Antibodies after a vaccine are determined in clinical trials, when some patterns in antibodies can be detected in a large crowd of people.
Once a vaccine is approved, it is more important to vaccinate as many people as possible. No one really knows exactly how the vaccine works. Maybe those antibodies help us. Maybe antibodies against something we haven't figured out yet. Maybe there cellular immunity is of greater importance. Not the point. The main thing is that if a lot of people were vaccinated, then the epidemic should fade away, and people should stop dying.
Immunodeficiency
There is also a situation when, according to the official position, antibodies can be determined after a vaccine. This is in people with immunodeficiency. For example, those who suppress their immunity with special drugs - all sorts of rheumatological and oncological patients. The vaccine may not work at all on them, and people will remain defenseless. They invent different exotic modes of vaccination or revaccination there, change something, check the level of antibodies to the spike protein, cellular immunity and try to deceive nature in every possible way.
Ordinary people
For all other people, the vaccine will most likely work. Some are better, and some are worse. But on average, it's still about the same as it was in clinical trials.
Got it? For the healthcare system, you and your antibodies do not matter as one unique person, but only in the crowd. In the same way as during clinical trials. Only in research are the numbers really determined, and after an illness you are registered on the portal as a person who has been ill. Maybe they also take note as a potential source of donor plasma. For this, it is necessary to determine antibodies to confirm the diagnosis. These will be antibodies to the N-protein, which is part of the virus. There is little benefit from these antibodies, but they confirm the very fact of your illness. That is, that you are faced with a real virus.
The determination of antibodies after the vaccine is not useful for official statistics, so you are not offered. For statistics, it is more important to know the fact of vaccination, your health, the fact of your illness and the presence of antibodies useful for society in your blood, which can be pumped out of you on occasion. Well, this is in my opinion ...
