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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-antibody-tests-a-crucial-step-toward-overcoming-covid-19-are-still-unreliable
Judy Woodruff
April 30, 2020
A massive UC Berkeley-UCSF joint study of more than 100 antibody tests for COVID-19 came up in a discussion of scientific developments in the treatment of COVID-19 on the PBS NewsHour Wednesday. UCSF microbiology and immunology professor Alex Marson, scientific director of the Berkeley-UCSF Innovative Genomics Institute, joined the discussion. "Finding a test that will tell us easily who's protected from reinfection – it's all of our hopes. There's a lot of work ahead to be done, but one message I want to get out there very, very clearly is that none of these tests should currently give anyone a feeling that they're safe from reinfection and can modify their behavior to take on more risk. We're just not there yet." Link to video. Professor Marson's part of the interview begins at the 5:49 mark. For more on this, see our press release at Berkeley News. Other stories on this topic have appeared in dozens of sources, including CNN (link to video) and the New York Times (Reuters).
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