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White Home coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci is prompting caution about relying on coronavirus antibody tests to determine whether somebody who has recuperated from the illness is immune.
Fauci stated on “Good Morning America” that “we still have a method to go” with antibody, or serology, tests, which check for proteins in the body immune system through a blood sample.
The presence of proteins implies an individual was exposed to the coronavirus and established antibodies against it, which might indicate they have at least some resistance.
Health authorities recommended that tests might be used as a method to help figure out when to resume communities.
” The problem is that these are tests that need to be verified and calibrated, and many of the tests out there don’t do that. So although you find out about business flooding the market with these antibody tests, a great deal of them are not confirmed,” Fauci stated.
” There’s a presumption– a reasonable assumption– that when you have an antibody that you are protected against reinfection, however that has not been proven for this specific virus. It’s true for other viruses,” he stated.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Contagious Diseases added that “we do not understand how long that security, if it exists, lasts. Is it one month?
” So the presumption that with the tests that are out there, if you have an antibody positivity, you’re excellent to go– unless that test has been validated and you can reveal there’s a connection between the antibody and security, it is a presumption to state that this is something that we can deal with,” Fauci stated.
” We still have a method to go with them,” he included.
On the other hand, Fauci likewise stated there would be no real economic recovery if the US doesn’t get coronavirus “under control.”
” Plainly, this is something that is harming from the standpoint of economics, from the perspective of things that have nothing to do with the virus,” Fauci said when inquired about demonstrations that have emerged across the US amid shelter-in-place orders.
” Unless we get the virus under control, the genuine recovery financially is not going to occur,” he informed ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
” If you jump the gun and enter into a situation where you have a big spike, you’re going to set yourself back,” Fauci continued. “So as uncomfortable as it is to pass the cautious standards of gradually phasing into a reopening, it’s going to backfire.”
