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Study suggests SARS-CoV-2 exposure is 50 to 85 times the COVID-19 cases in Santa Clara

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Sample map of Santa Clara County

One of the first serosurvey results from Santa Clara county in California reports 48,000 to 81,000 people infected, 50-fold to 85-fold more than the number of confirmed cases. Living through a pandemic while under lockdown order, with schools and routines and social events and music concerts and movie theaters and sports events all closed means … Read more

NIH starts serological survey testing anti-SARS-CoV-2 among the US population

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Using both traditional blood draw and an innovative home-collection device, the NIH recruits 1000 healthy volunteers nationwide The SARS-CoV-2 virus (otherwise known as coronavirus, the causative virus of COVID-19 disease currently rampaging worldwide) is a difficult pathogen to battle. While clearing out my bursting-at-the-seams ‘downloads’ folder on my computer this morning, I came across two … Read more