If you are wondering if your COVID-19 vaccine was successful, getting the VaccinePlus™ Card will answer that question for you.
You may also want to have the VaccinePlus™ Card because it is an easy, trustworthy, and verifiable way to share the fact that you got vaccinated with whomever you want to share it. Because we get the antibody test results directly from the lab, it truly verifies that you got vaccinated and it “worked.”
To clarify: The VaccinePlus™ Card uses a medical approach to give you information about the efficacy of the vaccine you received, so that you can make informed decisions about maintaining your health, as well as protecting yourself and those around you from the COVID-19 virus. It is a “virtual card” on your smartphone that combines your COVID-19 vaccine information with results of a particular type of COVID-19 antibody test. The goal of a vaccine is to create the antibodies that can guard against infection. Not everyone who gets a vaccine will develop a sufficient quantity of antibodies to provide such protection. By adding the antibody test, we can confirm if your vaccine “worked” by creating antibodies, and perhaps more importantly, if it didn’t. (See below for “What if my antibody test comes back negative?”)
However, no one can safely say exactly how much protection you will receive from those antibodies and how long they will last. There are studies underway to better determine these things in a general sense as well as how much variance there will be from person to person. At this point it is safe to say that when a vaccinated person has antibodies above the normal testing threshold, it is extremely rare for the person to have a severe infection leading to hospitalization or death.
The VaccinePlus™ Card is also a useful tool if you’re the one trying to create an environment that feels safer from COVID for participants at a social event or business gathering. The more participants with a VaccinePlus™ Card, the less concern there is about COVID, since there is verified medical reassurance that comes with the card.