"United Biomedical is now working with San Miguel County, which includes the famous Rocky Mountain ski destination, to test all 8,000 residents for COVID-19 antibodies -- making it the first community in the country to do widespread antibody testing. The idea, officials said, is to learn from an individual’s blood whether there is evidence the person has already been exposed. With that information, officials can then make decisions about whether quarantines and restrictions would need to continue and whether they need to be as widespread as they are in states and cities across the country right now."
This idea of 'test all' sounds like an internet rumor or crazy MSNBC talk.
1. To my knowledge has any government tested every citizen for a virus.
2. This is what we know:
- an infected person can spread the virus when they are non symptomatic
- You can take the test one day and then get infected the next. The only way to stop this is to test everyone and if they do not have the virus isolate them from those who have not been tested.
What about false negative results?
So testing the total population does nothing. If anything it could hurt because you are getting people away from social distancing.
Sounds like you missed the "Antibody" part.
And suggesting that people will not acquire immunity after getting it and showing anti-bodies for it....now THAT is crazy MSNBC talk....
You missed this above:
https://www.npr.org/...-of-coronavirus
It's unclear whether people who recover from COVID-19 will be immune to reinfection from the coronavirus and, if so, how long that immunity will last.
"We don't know very much," says Matt Frieman, a coronavirus researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. "I think there's a very likely scenario where the virus comes through this year, and everyone gets some level of immunity to it, and if it comes back again, we will be protected from it — either completely or if you do get reinfected later, a year from now, then you have much less disease."
"That is the hope," he adds. "But there is no way to know that."
the antibody test is different and less effective then the test for the virus.
https://www.cnn.com/...tion/index.html
Because antibodies can take time to develop, the FDA has previously warned against using antibody tests to definitively diagnose coronavirus.
You forgot to get the MSNBC conspiracy theories straight.
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. "
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