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Should you get an antibody test after COVID-19 vaccine? Doctors say it’s complicated

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COVID-19 vaccine, and some are wondering whether to take an antibody test to verify they indeed have protection.It’s an option some are exploring but doctors caution the tests are not an indicator of possible future infection and that there is still a range of reliability in commercially available tests.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States said antibody testing is not currently recommended to assess for immunity to COVID-19 following vaccination.“The clinical utility of post-vaccination testing has not been established,” reads a statement on its website.However, Marc-André Langlois, a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, said antibody tests make sense to a certain extent for more.

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