The Promise and Peril of Antibody Testing for COVID-19

MeSH terms

• Antibodies, Viral / blood*
• Betacoronavirus / immunology*
• COVID-19
• COVID-19 Testing
• Clinical Laboratory Techniques* / instrumentation
• Clinical Laboratory Techniques* / methods
• Communicable Disease Control
• Coronavirus Infections / blood
• Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
• False Negative Reactions*
• Humans
• Immunoglobulin G / blood
• Immunoglobulin M / blood
• Mass Screening
• Pandemics
• Pneumonia, Viral / blood
• Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
• Point-of-Care Testing
• Population Surveillance
• SARS-CoV-2
• Sensitivity and Specificity