Antibody testing for COVID19 Coronavirus - Are you immune?

There is a lot of hype around the potential for antibody testing to help get us back outside sooner rather than later. Here’s how it works. (2020)

Once enough people get Covid-19, it will stop spreading on its own. But the costs will be devastating. (2020)

A glut of antibody tests for the new coronavirus have hit the market. They appeal most to people who wonder if they’ve already had COVID-19. Here’s... (2020)

Important decisions about this question are being made, as they must be, based on only glimmers of data. (2020)

Such a test may help scientists learn how widespread the infection is, and how long people remain immune after recovering. (2020)

Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears. (2020)

A new COVID-19 antibody test in development may be less likely to give false-positive results, and it may detect immunity more accurately. (2020)

That is good news T-cell immune response to covid lasts at least six months ... (2020)

Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus. (2020)

It’s becoming increasingly clear how we can get back outside and back to work—although not exactly back to normal. (2020)