Originally Posted by
the810
My understanding is that as long as you have detectable antibodies, you should not be able to get infected. How long do those antibodies last (and what happens when you lose them) is the issue.
As I mentioned, there are countries which do accept antibody test for entry, which suggests they deem people who went through an infection to be an acceptably low risk for a few months. So I wonder if some other rules may be waived for those people (as I most likely fall into that category now).
T-Cells are more durable but T-Cells detection is hard and it is possible mild infections do not result in T-Cell creation.
Other antibodies vanish rapidly and more and more re-infections are recorded:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...s-quickly-some