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Does being exposed to an infection post vaccination improve immunity?

I often wonder, say if someone has been vaccinated for covid and they are then exposed regularly to it or through working on covid wards. Assuming they didn’t get a breakthrough infection and were just ‘exposed’ would the persons immunity to it increase?

For example it would kickstart antibodies again which would quickly disable the virus… wouldn’t this repeated process improve immunity further?
If you get an infection, yes. But your antibody levels will then go down over time (jut like they do after the vaccine, which is why they are considering boosters.
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Look at it like this the purpose of the vaccine is to give protection against the spike protein only. When you h get infected with covid19 your immune system will build a protection against b all parts of the virus. The antibodies will stay in your blood stream for a short while however your body will also produce t and b cells which will act as a library against future infections of the same virus and will produce antibodies to kill it off much faster. These t and b cells reside in your bone marrow.

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