LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A new antibody study of Los Angeles County suggests that hundreds of thousands of people may have been infected with the coronavirus without developing symptoms.Researchers with USC in April tested the blood of 863 LA County residents. The results were analyzed and published this week in the Journal of the American…
What can a COVID-19 antibody test tell me?An antibody test might show if you had COVID-19 in the recent past, which most experts think gives people some protection from the virus. The tests are different from the nasal swab tests that determine if you’re currently sick. But studies are still underway to determine what antibody…
I thought I might have had a mild case of COVID-19.In late March, about three weeks after my family hunkered down at home, I felt a pressure, a heaviness, on my chest. I didn’t have a fever or a cough and I could breathe just fine, but the feeling stuck around.At the time, people were…
The first saliva test for COVID-19 was a breakthrough when Rutgers University announced it last month, but now it’s even more convenient: You can spit into the funnel from the comfort of your home. In the Beltway region, Potomac Pediatrics started offering antibody tests May 11 to people who wanted to see whether they or…
A blood test for coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Positive antibody tests in two Snohomish County residents indicate that COVID-19 could have possibly arrived in Washington state as far back as December. Seattle scientist details ‘gold standard’ for tracking COVID-19 outbreak According to a report from The Seattle Times, a woman named Jean fell ill in…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…