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To: CF Rebel who wrote (198903)	4/12/2020 3:50:44 PM
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Did you see this earlier post? REPORT: 30%-50% Of Patients In Chicago Tested For COVID-19 Already Have Antibodies In System “A phlebotomist working at Roseland Community Hospital said Thursday that 30% to 50% of patients tested for the coronavirus have antibodies while only around 10% to 20% of those tested have the active virus,” Chicago City Wire reported on Thursday. Sumaya Owaynat, a phlebotomy technician, said she tests between 400 and 600 patients on an average day in the parking lot at Roseland Community Hospital. Drive-thru testing is from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. each day. However, the hospital has a limited number of tests they can give per day. Owaynat said the number of patients coming through the testing center who appear to have already had coronavirus and gotten over it is far greater than those who currently have the disease. “A lot of people have high antibodies, which means they had the coronavirus but they don’t have it anymore and their bodies built the antibodies,” Owaynat told Chicago City Wire. More than 500,000 Americans have tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 20,000 have died. According to one model, the number of deaths per day peaked on Friday and will begin to fall. TRENDING: And There It Is... Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Bans Buying US Flags During Lockdown A key to re-opening the U.S. economy will be testing to find out who already has had the virus (some reports say up to 50% of those who have contracted SARS-CoV-2 show no symptoms). Those with antibodies can return to work as they’ll be immune to the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has already begun preliminary studies to try to find out who is carrying antibodies.

To: CF Rebel who wrote (198903)	4/12/2020 5:14:02 PM
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Army immunology chief says many people probably caught COVID-19 but had no symptoms Many Americans probably contracted the coronavirus but remained asymptomatic, according to John Dye of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. "So I think what is needed is widespread epidemiology, which is the study of your serum to see, did you see the virus, are you responding to the virus, so therefore you know that most likely if you got infected again you would not succumb or have any deleterious effects," said Dye, who is chief of viral immunology at USAMRIID. He made the remarks while talking to Sharyl Attkisson on the latest episode of her "Full Measure" television program. Dye said the transmission rate for COVID-19 is about twice that as for the flu. He said this coronavirus is more dangerous than other coronaviruses because it transmitted from an animal to humans. "So, those coronaviruses that are circulating in human population, they actually have been in humans for a long, long time," Dye said. "This particular coronavirus jumped from an animal species, out of that species, and spilled over into humans. Those are the type of viruses that are possible pandemics or epidemics that can lead to large scale lethality."