Dr. Fauci Urges Caution About Relying On Coronavirus Antibody Tests

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White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci is urging caution about relying on coronavirus antibody tests to determine whether someone who has recovered from the illness is immune.

Fauci said on “Good Morning America” that “we still have a way to go” with antibody, or serology, tests, which check for proteins in the immune system through a blood sample.

“The problem is that these are tests that need to be validated and calibrated, and many of the tests out there don’t do that. So even though you hear about companies flooding the market with these antibody tests, a lot of them are not validated,” Fauci said.

“There’s an assumption — a reasonable assumption — that when you have an antibody that you are protected against reinfection, but that has not been proven for this particular virus,” he said. “We [also] don’t know how long that protection, if it exists, lasts. Is it one month? Three months? Six months? A year?

Read more at THE NY POST.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. Fauci hasn’t been seen in public for 2 days now. Was he transferred to GITMO where they are investigating his $3.7 billion dollars grant to Wuhan in 2015?

  2. Sowing uncertainty again. Could anybody show me anything he has said that creates stability? He should be given a pink slip.

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