COVID-19 tests used to be able to detect a positive case within the first 48 hours, but many results are now delayed until four days after symptoms appear, according to the LA Times. Elizabeth Hudson, ...
A Feb. 16 study in the Lancet medical journal found that, for people who had COVID-19 immunity resulting from infection, protection from severe disease and death remained high for at least 10 months.
As governments the world over seek ways to jumpstart economic activity, one proposal is a so-called “immunity passport” that would allow certain people who test positive for COVID-19 antibodies to ...
Covid-19 was never just another cold. We knew it was going to stick around and keep changing to try to get the upper hand on our immune systems. But we've changed, too. Our B cells and T cells, ...
As mask mandates are lifted and restrictions removed in a step toward normalcy, a test to measure immunity would be a powerful tool to measure individual risk. In 2010, doctors told Ben Sobieck, now ...
A T-cell test developed by Adaptive Biotechnologies could become the first commercially available test of its kind, and it may be more effective at detecting past COVID-19 infections than antibody ...
There's another theory about the Covid-19 pandemic going around, and while it is pretty cool, it's not exactly the solution ...
Get it early, develop immunity, get back to work: some wonder As COVID-19 numbers climb precipitously, health care workers, first responders and the countless individuals working in "essential ...
"We feel this pressure because we want to help people." Antibody tests, which reveal whether someone has been infected with the novel coronavirus, have been touted as key to reopening the economy and ...
Testing positive for COVID-19 is not exactly a positive experience. After all, wanting to go viral these days doesn’t tend to mean wanting to be infected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome ...