You should wait until you’ve recovered from your symptoms and been cleared to leave isolation.

If you were treated for COVID-19 with monoclonal antibodies or convalescent plasma, you should wait 90 days before getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Talk to your doctor if you are unsure what treatments you received or if you have more questions about getting a COVID-19 vaccine.

Vaccination can provide a higher, more robust, and more consistent level of immunity to protect people from COVID-19 than infection alone. Based on what we know right now, COVID-19 infection provides some protection against reinfection but, we don’t know the durability of that protection, the sustainability of that infection, or the level of protection depending on the severity of the previous infection.  Given this science, getting vaccinated after infection provides a significant increase in your antibody response and significantly increases your protection against reinfection and severe disease. In laboratory studies, it also appears to improve how well you are able to respond to variants. While people may get some level of protection from a prior infection, there is not currently a standard antibody test or antibody level that can show whether an individual will continue to be at low risk of infection as their immunity wanes.