Testing the tests — And many of the tests available to the public produced variable results. John Timmer - Jun 11, 2020 10:15 am UTC Enlarge / Melissa Cruz elevates her arm after donating COVID-19 convalescent plasma as phlebotomist Jenee Wilson shuts down a machine. How much of an immune response does a SARS-CoV-2 infection…
Free COVID-19 antibody testing available at Orange County Convention Center Hide Transcript Show Transcript WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO GET A TEST. PKG2 >> BEFORE TODAY TESTING WAS JUST FOR FIRST RESPONDERS. NOW IT’S OPEN TO ANYONE SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. ANTIBODY TESTS CAN TELL IF YOU COULD HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH COVID-19 IN…
People line up in mid-April in Chelsea, Mass., to get antibody tests for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images People line up in mid-April in Chelsea, Mass., to get antibody tests for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Stan…
New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that coronavirus antibody test results may still be too inaccurate to be reliably used to determine coronavirus-related policy. In addition, not enough is known about what exactly the presence of antibodies indicates in terms of future immunity, the CDC said on its website. These tests,…
DRAPER — Early testing for COVID-19 antibodies in several Utah communities reveals a rate that is well above the statewide COVID-19 infection rate.That likely means more people have had the virus than COVID-19 testing alone shows.More than 500 people paid $70 for an appointment today at Galena Hills Park in Draper to find out if…
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food
Published: November 08, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week Infant formula maker ByHeart has “discontinued” manufacturing its products after getting caught up in an outbreak of infant botulism. ByHeart’s founders started a new company, MeridianMade, earlier this year and announced in late October that it would purchase Dublin-based
Published: November 07, 2026, 9:48 pm The County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health is wrapping up its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Brookshire Farms in San Luis Obispo. Fifteen people are included in the outbreak – five who were laboratory confirmed. The county previously reported that