London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline

Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by Reason077 on Sunday May 24, 2020 @04:39AM (#23290124)

It’s not clear yet how reliable the antibody tests are. Antibodies fade over time, and we don’t know how long Covid-19 antibodies remain detectable in your blood. It’s quite possible that after 6 weeks or so, you’ll no longer have easily detectable levels of antibodies.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by guscost on Sunday May 24, 2020 @12:20PM (#23292544)

We also do not know the seroconversion rate for mild or asymptomatic cases (every study measuring this seems to use an entirely-hospitalized or mostly-hospitalized cohort).

EDIT: Hey hey it looks like some information is finally coming out, and what do you know, it supports the idea that milder cases don't develop IgG antibodies as often: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.108308v1

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by guscost on Sunday May 24, 2020 @03:02PM (#23293762)

But among a cohort of mildly-symptomatic hospital workers, almost all developed detectable antibodies: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.19.20101832v...

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