Re: anthony costello ex director WHO on possible lack of specificity of antibody test. Archived Message Posted by brooks on April 4, 2020, 11:51 pm, in reply to "anthony costello ex director WHO on possible lack of specificity of antibody test." Thanks Dan. My brother sent this to me and I found it quite informative and I'm sure you'll get more from it than I did. One of the things I found interesting and somewhat hopeful was a couple of lines on post-infection immunity: Virologists generally agree that media reports of reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 are most likely due to erroneous PCR tests. Hibberd argues that once people produce antibodies against a particular coronavirus, they probably have immunity for life. Indeed, Wang’s laboratory has investigated how long immunity against SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus lasts. “17 years later, a SARS survivor still has neutralising antibodies against SARS—we found that not only were the antibodies there, but they could still neutralise the SARS virus." https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30788-1/fulltext There do seem to be political factors at play in the approval process, understandably, but it makes it hard to gauge where the science stops and the politics begins. For a layman like me anyway. Also an interesting piece in the Heil on the millions of undeployed antibody test kits from China and related issues UK has 'bought 2million coronavirus antibody tests from China' and half will arrive this week even though officials are STILL 'evaluating' accuracy of kits https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8177189/UK-bought-2million-coronavirus-antibody-tests-China.html Message Thread: anthony costello ex director WHO on possible lack of specificity of antibody test. - dan April 4, 2020, 7:03 pm Re: anthony costello ex director WHO on possible lack of specificity of antibody test. - brooks April 4, 2020, 11:51 pm Re: anthony costello ex director WHO on possible lack of specificity of antibody test. - Shyaku April 5, 2020, 12:05 pm Re: anthony costello ex director WHO on possible lack of specificity of antibody test. - brooks April 5, 2020, 1:08 pm Re: anthony costello ex director WHO on possible lack of specificity of antibody test. - Shyaku April 5, 2020, 8:22 pm Re: anthony costello ex director WHO on possible lack of specificity of antibody test. - brooks April 5, 2020, 8:42 pm Re: anthony costello ex director WHO on possible lack of specificity of antibody test. - Shyaku April 7, 2020, 5:27 am better link (i hope) for the Lancet article - brooks April 5, 2020, 1:12 pm   Searching