A new study of the blood of more than 28,000 dialysis patients has found that, as of July, approximately 9.3% of people in the US had coronavirus antibodies, although numbers ranged from an average of 3.5% in the West to an average of 27% in the Northeast
A new nationwide study of the blood of more than 28,000 dialysis patients may help answer one of the big questions surrounding the pandemic: how many people have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus?
The answer could tell us a lot about how many people in the United States have been exposed to the virus and how much community spread there has been. Plus, the testing strategy used in the study points to a relatively easy way to track Covid-19 disease activity over the long-term, especially among vulnerable populations. The short answer to how many people had antibodies, as of July, is approximately 9.3% -- although numbers ranged from an average of 3.
"Anand and colleagues deserve credit for pioneering a scalable sampling strategy that offers a blueprint for standardised national serosurveillance in the USA and other countries with a large haemodialysing population," wrote professors Barnaby Flower and Christina Atchison from Imperial College London. They were not involved in the study.The study authors indicated the same.
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