You're about to get a blood test to see if you have been exposed to Covid-19, the deadly disease caused by the novel coronavirus. You're hoping it will tell you that you have, right? That your blood ...
(NEW YORK) — A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel once again warned consumers this week not to use commercial antibody tests to check whether or not they are immune to COVID-19. These ...
As the world continues to navigate the aftermath and lingering presence of COVID-19, one question remains as relevant as ever: Which COVID-19 test is right for me—diagnostic or antibody? Whether ...
Antibody tests used to determine if people have been infected in the past with Covid-19 might be wrong up to half the time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in new guidance ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. health insurers may balk at covering tests that look for coronavirus antibodies in some cases, arguing that employers or the government should foot a bill expected to run ...
Last month the White House issued guidelines suggesting a way to reduce the number of false positive results in antibody tests: Run two tests. But that strategy has not yet been validated for ...
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 ...