Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.VADU, INDIA—At a tiny rural hospital about 1 hour’s drive northeast of Pune, India, in early April, a team of workers loaded an SUV with coolers, syringes, vials, thermometers, and electronic tablets.
They drove 20 minutes to the village of Karandi, slowing to pass caravans of migrant sugarcane cutters in ox carts. They spent more than 1 hour taking blood samples at a cluster of houses shared by three generations of one family.
Later, the team would scour the blood for antibodies that indicate past run-ins with COVID-19.Girish Dayma, who helps oversee this research program run by a satellite of King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital in Pune, says the team’s.