My family have been a part of the ONS survey since May last year so we’ve had monthly swab tests done, always negative. My son caught covid from school in November so the survey asked if the adults would do a blood test to look for antibodies in Dec. We agreed and we had the results yesterday. Both myself and my husband were positive. My husband had an antibody positive result in July last year thanks to work doing them. We know that a family member had confirmed covid in March and we are pretty confident we must have had covid asymptomatically around that time too as we spent a lot of time with him.
So my question is, now I know I have had covid and still have antibodies, how does that change things for me? Obviously I will still wear a mask, follow the rules, socially distance etc, but can I actually stop worrying so much? Or could my antibodies not be good enough for the new variant? Could I catch covid again and be ill as my antibodies are about 10 months old? Any advice would be welcomed.