{"id":352,"date":"2020-04-21T21:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T04:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=352"},"modified":"2020-04-21T21:03:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T04:03:26","slug":"everything-we-know-about-coronavirus-immunity-and-plenty-we-still-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/04\/21\/everything-we-know-about-coronavirus-immunity-and-plenty-we-still-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything we know about coronavirus immunity, and plenty we still don’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

People who think they\u2019ve been exposed to the novel coronavirus are clamoring for antibody tests \u2014 blood screens that can detect who has previously been infected and, the hope is, signal who is protected from another case of Covid-19.<\/p>\n

But as the tests roll out, some experts are trying to inject a bit of restraint into the excitement that the results of these tests could, for example, clear people to get back to work. Some antibody tests have not been validated, they warn. Even those that have been can still provide false results. And an accurate positive test may be hard to interpret: the virus is so new that researchers cannot say for sure what sort of results will signal immunity or how long that armor will last.<\/p>\n

They caution that policymakers may be making sweeping economic and social decisions \u2014 plans to reopen businesses or schools, for example \u2014 based on limited data, assumptions, and what\u2019s known about other viruses. President Trump last week unveiled a three-phased approach to reopen the country; he said some states that have seen declining case counts could start easing social distancing requirements immediately. And some authorities have raised the idea of granting \u201cimmunity passports\u201d to people who recover from the virus to allow them to return to daily life without restrictions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via: <\/i>Everything we know about coronavirus immunity, and plenty we still don’t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People who think they\u2019ve been exposed to the novel coronavirus are clamoring for antibody tests \u2014 blood screens that can detect who has previously been infected and, the hope is, signal who is protected from another case of Covid-19. But as the tests roll out, some experts are trying to inject a bit of restraint … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}