{"id":380,"date":"2020-04-24T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=380"},"modified":"2020-04-24T09:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T16:42:20","slug":"new-covid-19-antibody-study-results-are-in-are-they-right-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/04\/24\/new-covid-19-antibody-study-results-are-in-are-they-right-wired\/","title":{"rendered":"New Covid-19 Antibody Study Results Are In. Are They Right? | WIRED"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So-called serological tests work differently from Covid-19 diagnostic tests, which require a nose or throat swab and look for viral RNA. Instead, they check a person\u2019s blood for evidence of an immune response to the virus, which can be found even in people with no symptoms or those who have already recovered from the disease. Researchers have eagerly awaited those kinds of tests to gain insight into the true infection and fatality rates across age groups, and to help answer questions about things like asymptomatic spread and how long antibodies last\u2014a key part of understanding how Covid-19 immunity might work. In early April, more than 3,000 people took the Stanford researchers up on their offer.<\/p>\n<p>The results, posted Friday by the Stanford researchers as a preprint, haven\u2019t been peer-reviewed. But they have gotten a lot of attention. And they\u2019ve quickly become emblematic of this age of rapid-fire scientific communications: Surprising results are widely shared before they\u2019re published in an academic journal, followed by an attempt at peer review by Twitter thread.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/new-covid-19-antibody-study-results-are-in-are-they-right\/?link_uid=13\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>New Covid-19 Antibody Study Results Are In. Are They Right? | WIRED<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So-called serological tests work differently from Covid-19 diagnostic tests, which require a nose or throat swab and look for viral RNA. Instead, they check a person\u2019s blood for evidence of an immune response to the virus, which can be found even in people with no symptoms or those who have already recovered from the disease. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/04\/24\/new-covid-19-antibody-study-results-are-in-are-they-right-wired\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">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\/380"}],"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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}