Louis.īut mostly, patients are curious about whether they have had the disease. Sonny Saggar, owner of 24/7 Healthcare urgent care centers in Creve Coeur and downtown St. “I think there has been a lot of hype in the lay press and even from a government level about the utility of these antibodies tests, but at this point we’re still struggling with how to interpret these results.”Įven if it turns out people with the antibodies are immune, there’s no proof of how long that immunity would last, he said.Ĭompanies could request their workers be tested before they go back to work, said Dr. “We don’t know if having detected antibodies means you’re actually immune to the virus,” he said. Neil Anderson, Barnes-Jewish Hospital clinical microbiologist. But there’s not yet concrete evidence that’s the case for COVID-19, said Dr. Scientists say that, with some diseases, the presence of antibodies provides the person with immunity. They only show only if they had it in the past. The antibody tests offered at clinics don't reveal if people have COVID-19. “I think one of the challenges with this test is we really need to get to the bottom of what it means to be positive,” said Dr. Having them means a person has been exposed to the virus.īut doctors caution they still know little about what the results of COVID-19 antibodies tests reveal. The results could show if someone was sick with the illness and recovered.Īntibodies are proteins the immune system makes to fight sickness. People who wonder if they’ve been sick with the coronavirus can now be tested for COVID-19 antibodies at urgent care clinics throughout the St.
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