This guy loves the camera!
Yesterday there was a ban on government health officials appearing on CNN.
Today…. Not so much!
(CNN) Antibody tests that would verify whether a person recently had the novel coronavirus could be available within a week, according to the nation’s top infectious disease expert.
“Within a period of a week or so, we’re going to have a rather large number of tests that are available.”
Dr Anthony Fauci
Having antibodies to the coronavirus could mean someone is protected from getting re-infected, making such tests important for medical workers and others on the front lines fighting the pandemic.
“If their antibody test is positive, one can formulate strategies about whether or not they would be at risk or vulnerable to getting re-infected.”
Dr Anthony Fauci
Tests that would identify a current infection would still be important, he said, and used in parallel with antibody tests, which still need to be validated.
“But as we look forward, as we get to the point of at least considering opening up the country as it were, it’s very important to appreciate and to understand how much that virus has penetrated this society……… Because it’s very likely that there are a large number of people out there that have been infected, have been asymptomatic and did not know they were infected.”
Dr Anthony Fauci
At least 16,700 people have died of coronavirus in the United States — nearly half of them in New York state. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, of the more than 466,390 total confirmed cases nationwide, about 162,000 are in New York state. That means it has more reported cases than any country in the world.
Antibody tests for the novel coronavirus could be available within ‘a week or so,’ Fauci says
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