What an antibody test could mean for the coronavirus pandemic

Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says a Covid-19 antibody test is coming 'in a week or so.' CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains what the science behind that testing means.
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    1. Breaking News! Coronavirus break 500,000 USA Today and 19,000 dead surpassing Italy 🇮🇹 the USA is number 1. 1,700,000 cases globally. New York 🗽 hardest-hit 👊 area in the world 🌎 followed by Spain 🇪🇸 Italy 🇮🇹 Belgium 🇧🇪 🇫🇷France Netherlands 🇳🇱 the UK 🇬🇧 Switzerland 🇨🇭 and Sweden 🇸🇪. Also, the 5 states to watch are New Jersey 🇯🇪 Louisiana Michigan Connecticut and Massachusetts. These are the hardest hit 👊 places in the world 🌍 rest are stable at 60 deaths per million or less so 1 in 16,666 chance to die from the virus!

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  1. Conservatives : China down played this virus!!!

    Also conservatives : Its just a flu, don’t worry.

    1. Ian Trimbath I raise my hand. I am from a family of health care workers. But I need no pity. They passed being heroes.

    1. Governor Cuomo said that hospital administrators are over allowing for what they need. He said no one goes without ppes

  2. I wonder how much it will cost. Titers for MMR and varicella are like $25 at my local health department

    1. The price would have to be kept low-mid range otherwise it would make for bad optics for the supplier company. I guess $49-99 range.

    2. BTNX Inc in Markham, Ontario is shipping thousands of antibody tests to the US at a cost of $10 US each.

    3. I remember going to the health department and she mentioned a price higher than the other one I went to (mind you, she redirected me to) which charged me $10.

    4. You get titers for MMR? Why? Do your normal schedule then one booster as an adult btwn 25-30 yrs. There’s a chart you can find if you google vaccination schedule. Not complicated.

  3. I really truly believe the doctors and nurses and truck drivers and First Responders and anybody working in the store need to have these masks need to have gloves these are the people in the front line that are continuing to help others continuing to fight coronavirus and they need to have the proper gear for them to do their jobs and for anyone to mistake that and not listen and not pay attention to the reality and what’s going on is being naive

    1. I literally quit my job because i wasn’t allowed to wear a mask or gloves because in my “Manager’s words” Would look unprofessional and would “Scare the customer”

    1. Clearly no one knows anything. Unless you watch one news station, one news station seems to know it all. Until you watch another one. Trust in God. Yeshua will lead the way if you’d stop trusting in America’s heath care training. Have you seen our birth rates? With all the drugs and poison they pump into woman they practically force early c sections which leads to our wonderful numbers. On top of our sinful love of food. They want depopulation, hasn’t anyone told you? People are a hassle to the rich, and it’s quite obvious they will not be able or willing to help. Look at America’s future death and birth rates. They completely expect births to plummet, and deaths to skyrocket, starting in 2020. They tell you these things.

    2. @Lulz So you don’t care about anyone. Why are you even posting? The only benefit anyone is getting from your comments is that you’re not too bright.

    1. Allah just means God. U people suck and should learn more. Not the world fault America lacks education

  4. I can tell you whos been tested the 1 % we have been in lockdown and no one i know has ever been tested at the store myself and maybe 4 others had gloves and masks iver 75 at least were in the store the greeters offered to wipe off your cart without a mask stabding a foot away from you then the cashiers no masks no worker was wearing gloves or mask i got upset and asked why am i wearing mask and gloves oh I know because none of you are.

    1. In my country you aren’t allowed in banks without a mask and your temperature is checked and you aren’t allowed to sit close to each other. Everyone is wearing a mask in stores.

  5. Am I the only one that saw Reuter’s tweet earlier that South Koreans that were infected cured and reinfected??

    1. @Kevin Grason Well to “kick” the virus will take a vaccine. June 1st we can breathe a sigh of relief but we only have until it returns in September. I know they keep saying 12-18 months for a vaccine, well actually we already have the vaccine but it has to go through trials, we can make a vaccine in a month or two, we have the technology we just have to make sure it’s safe. But we don’t have 12 months to wait, something has to give, either people will be sent back to work too soon, or, the most likely answer, the vaccine will be rushed and we’ll get it before the end of this year sometime. We can’t wait another year, that’s just impossible.

    2. I read last month that in China, after two negatives, the patients are still asked to be quarantined 14 days, just in case the test was false negative (too little virus to be detected, but not really gone away and might come back when the immune go bad).
      Some really did have to return to the hospital because their sickness came back again.

      I also read a man died during the quarantine without anybody accompanied him. He tested positive again post mortem. It was sad.

  6. I was at the grocery store the other day. Nobody was wearing a mask or gloves. I found it very strange

    1. That’s too bad. Lot of bad information out there. I live in Indonesia. We had the first case in early February and lots of Chinese tourists. We shut down flights from China the same day as the USA, despite Trump’s claim of being the first, as we’re 12 hours ahead of Washington DC. Almost everyone is wearing masks. I don’t see how gloves will help but everyone has hand sanitizer and it’s available at the door of most places. Indonesia has 280 million people so only 50 million less than the USA but we only have 3,500 confirmed cases and 306 deaths. We bought 500,000 rapid test a few weeks ago so it’s not because there’s no testing. People aren’t all staying home and the streets are still fairly busy but apparently masks work. We’re stupid people I guess because we didn’t listen to the CDC and WHO that masks aren’t helpful.

    2. I really wished the US had prepared better and taken this whole thing more seriously. Look at China. Almost a billion population, and they’re on a rebound from the virus. It can be done.

  7. Even if the COVID-19 survivors start going back to work and some level of “normalcy”, what about the rest of us? How is that going to work? A two-tier society?

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