Physician Michael Saag has already had COVID-19, and a recent blood test confirmed his antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus are through the roof. But the infectious disease specialist isn’t taking any chances, and still wears full personal protective gear when seeing COVID-19 patients.
“I don’t want to be cavalier and expose myself to people with known infection and get infected again. That would be kind of stupid,” says Saag, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases and director of the Center for AIDS Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
