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為了在抑制COVID-19率的同時幫助扭轉當前的鎖定狀態，我們需要確定誰目前感染了病毒，誰感染了並且康復了。由於最近已詳細討論了用於檢測當前感染的逆轉錄酶聚合酶鏈反應（RT-PCR）測試，我們在本文中重點介紹抗體測試。抗體的存在與否可以通知個人是否感染，並指導個人和社會決定是否以及何時恢復正常活動。因此，抗體測試需要特別準確。它也可以用來估計先前感染的人群患病率。我們證明了為此目的不需要高精度，但是假陽性和假陰性的數量需要大致相等。 抗體測試越來越多，但準確性卻有所不同。希望可以將其用於識別至少部分免疫的人。對於被認為已從COVID-19中恢復的個人而言，免疫證書是一個比免疫護照更為寬泛...

Science has a lot to say about the effectiveness of wearing a mask to stop the spread of the coronavirus, but the communication of that science has been corrupted by a combination of partisan divides, sensationalist media stories, distrust, false dichotomies, and letting the perfect be the enemy...

From the eminent pathologist Dr James Robb: Subject: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the first molecular virologists in the...