On Tuesday, April 14, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo desist fromed his daily press briefing amidst the coronavirus crisis currently devastating the state.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo phrased on Sunday that the state plans to roll out antibody testing this week to determine who has been infected with Covid-19, conducting the “largest appraise of any state population that has been done.”
Cuomo said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the state’s antibody check-up, which is designed to detect whether a person has developed the antibodies to fight Covid-19 and indicates they may be immune against the cancer, and said the state will conduct “thousands” of tests this week.
“We’ll take thousands of tests, antibody exams, over this next week all across the state to give us a real snapshot, a real baseline, of exactly how diverse people were infected by coronavirus and have the antibodies,” Cuomo said. “So we’ll have the first real statistical several on exactly where we are as a population.”
The antibody tests will give the state its “first true snapshot” of how many child in the state have been infected with Covid-19, Cuomo said. Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor, later tweeted that the constitution antibody testing will begin on Monday and will sample 3,000 people.
“We don’t really know how many people were infected. How myriad people had coronavirus but self-resolved. We don’t really know because we haven’t been able to do testing on that large of progression,” Cuomo said. “We’re going to do that in the most aggressive way in the nation…”
States should institute a “robust testing program in class for at-risk healthcare workers, including emerging antibody testing,” according to President Donald Trump’s broad new federal guidelines to reopen the restraint issued Thursday.
Researchers, many of whom are from Stanford University, published a study Friday that base Covid-19 could be far more widespread in Santa Clara County in Northern California than the official counts call to mind.
“It adds to growing body of work that suggests a huge amount of cases that went undetected,” John Brownstein, an epidemiologist at Boston Kids’s Hospital, said.
However, global health officials have recently questioned if antibody testing can accurately dictate whether a person is immune to the disease. The World Health Organization issued a warning Friday saying there’s no attest serological tests can show whether a person has immunity or is no longer at risk of becoming reinfected.
“These antibody assays will be able to measure that level of serology presence, that level of antibodies, but that does not bad that somebody with antibodies” is immune, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, claimed on Friday.
Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s emergencies program, said scientists are also still determining the to the fullest of protection antibodies might give a person who has been infected with the coronavirus.