Waiting for Certainty on Covid-19 Antibody Tests - At What Cost?

N Engl J Med. 2020 Aug 6;383(6):e37. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2017739. Epub 2020 Jun 5.

Authors

Milton C Weinstein¹, Kenneth A Freedberg¹, Emily P Hyle¹, A David Paltiel¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (M.C.W.), and the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School (K.A.F., E.P.H.) - all in Boston; and the Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT (A.D.P.).

PMID: 32501664
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2017739

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MeSH terms

Antibodies, Viral / blood*
Antibodies, Viral / isolation & purification
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
False Positive Reactions
Humans
Mass Screening / standards
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
SARS-CoV-2
Sensitivity and Specificity
Seroepidemiologic Studies
Serologic Tests / standards*

Substances

Antibodies, Viral