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Re:New research shows social distancing a must to beat Covid-19 by surfmike on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:34AM (#22628415)
Hopefully serological tests will be widely available which would tell us if we’ve had it or not.
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Re:New research shows social distancing a must to beat Covid-19 by sojournerc on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:37AM (#22628445)
Agreed.

That's the necessary data to know when we can start rolling back the extreme measures being taken to slow the spread.

We need a measure to detect herd immunity

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Re:New research shows social distancing a must to beat Covid-19 by 1001101 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:09PM (#22628827)
It sounds like there are antibody tests in the offing:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615379/antibody-test-how-...

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