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U of A researcher to study quality of antibody responses in COVID-19 patients
COVID-19.A serology test is a blood test that detects the presence of antibodies in a person’s blood, which will indicate if the person has previously been exposed to the novel coronavirus.Dr. Steven Drews, an associate professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Alberta, said there is still much that is unknown about the body’s antibody response to the virus and the study may be able to help with developing policy as the country moves forward.“We do not have a solid sense of what it means to have been exposed to [COVID-19] or to be asymptomatic and have been infected,” he said.Drews said infected individuals can generate antibodies, but it isn’t clear how long those antibodies last for.