According to Fauci, the antibody tests will help to show 'how much that virus has penetrated the society,' as more times goes by and the U.S. gets to the point of 'considering opening up the country.'
On Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said coronavirus antibody tests were just days away from being put in use and a"rather large number of tests," will be available within a week.
"Actually at the last task force meeting the individuals responsible for both developing, validating and getting the tests out, are saying, and I'm certain that's gonna happen, that within a period of a week or so, we're gonna have a rather large number of tests that are available," Fauci added. "We still rely appropriately and heavily on the test to show that someone is in fact infected," Fauci said."Whereas the antibody test says that you were infected and if you're feeling well, you're very likely recovered. When you're trying to find out whether a person is infected that's the test we always talk about," Fauci said about the antibody tests.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci speaks during the daily coronavirus briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 09, 2020 in Washington, DC. U.S."Because it's very likely that there are a large number of people out there that have been infected, have been asymptomatic and did not know they were infected," Fauci said.
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