by: Donovan Long
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD)– The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are alerting that a test implied to figure out whether individuals were previously infected with COVID-19 might have incorrect positives.
Spectrum Health is offering those antibody, or serology, tests.
” To date, we have actually evaluated nearly 2,000 patients,” Dr. Adam Caulfield, technical director of microbiology at Spectrum Health, stated.
Just 3%of those clients checked positive for antibodies.
” It’s a big adequate sample size to show we have a really low occurrence of disease in West Michigan,” Caulfield stated.
Be that as it may, the CDC said, “Some tests may exhibit cross-reactivity with other coronaviruses, such as those that trigger the acute rhinitis.”
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