Coronavirus antibody tests may not tell you when you can get back to work, experts say
If a person has a positive test for COVID-19 antibodies, it means the person has been infected with the virus at some point in the past.
Only time — perhaps a year or more, experts predict — will be able to determine whether immunity lasts several weeks, several months, several years or even a lifetime.
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