COVID vaccines don’t work for some people. For them, the pandemic remains terrifying.

One of the National Jewish doctors on the study, Shu-Yi Liao [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], called the results “a novel finding” among COVID research. “Initially people thought, ‘I’m fully vaccinated; I’m safe,’” he said. “But right now that’s not necessarily the truth.”

“National Jewish is a place where we want everyone to know their risks,” said Anthony Gerber, [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] another doctor on the study. “We do testing so we can help people do better and live better.”

The experience made Michael Wechsler at National Jewish [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] think about a new way of treating high-risk patients. “We should probably be testing patients for antibodies and identifying who is at risk and giving boosters and or extra boosters to those individuals based on their antibody levels,” he said.