Vaccine mandates for schools and hospitals began this month across California. Some people have chosen not to take the vaccine, losing their jobs in the process. They have even taken their children out of school. What is the right thing to do, staying outside of a political point of view. Morning anchor Aaron Perlman has a conversation with Dr. James Simmons, Nurse Practitioner in the Los Angeles area about vaccine concerns and antibodies from the virus.

Doctor Simmons says, "There seems to be two groups of people that he meets in the trauma center he works that haven't taken the vaccine. 1) People not completely against the vaccine, but want to do more research, and 2) or they haven't gotten around to it." He also stresses that most people who have received one shot of a vaccine had planned to do so early on.

Anchor Aaron Perlman asks about people who have had COVID, but don't want to take the vaccine because they feel their antibodies are stronger than the synthetic vaccine. Dr. Simmons suggests that we should still take the vaccine. "As many as a third of the people who have had COVID don't develop a strong antibody to the virus. Plus, there are great antibodies, but do not last that long. In some people, they last as short as 60 days."

As for testing for antibodies Dr. James Simmons he suggests we should make sure that we are protected no matter what, so to take a vaccine to be safe.

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