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Cool, it's nice to see progress on antibody tests - the early Chinese ones in use here in Czech Republic are reportedly (accordingly to local news articles) rat
by m4rtink 7y ago
Cool, it's nice to see progress on antibody tests - the early Chinese ones in use here in Czech Republic are reportedly (accordingly to local news articles) rather noisy. Still preaty nice when they work, as you only need a drop of blood & get results in 10 minutes vs sample swabbing & complicated PCR sample processing taking up to a day.
- mlyle 7y agoA bigger issue than the specificity of the antibody tests is that they're generally not positive until you're nearly recovered. This confines their use to specific purposes (assessing whether someone may be immune, estimating true infection fatality rates, etc).