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Saturday, May 2, 2020

Video (ZDoggMD, 19 April 2020) titled How Fatal Is COVID? The Stanford Antibody Prevalence Study

Title of video:
How Fatal Is COVID? The Stanford Antibody Prevalence Study

Published:
ZDoggMD, 19 April 2020
Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-KpR2NdSos&feature=youtu.be

Video is based on the following scholarly article:
COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California

Authors:
Eran Bendavid, Bianca Mulaney, Neeraj Sood, Soleil Shah, Emilia Ling, Rebecca Bromley-Dulfano, Cara Lai, Zoe Weissberg, Rodrigo Saavedra-Walker, James Tedrow, Dona Tversky, Andrew Bogan, Thomas Kupiec, Daniel Eichner, Ribhav Gupta, John Ioannidis & Jay Bhattacharya

Published:
medRxiv, 14 April 2020
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v2
This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review.

From the abstract:
"Addressing COVID-19 is a pressing health and social concern. To date, many epidemic projections and policies addressing COVID-19 have been designed without seroprevalence data to inform epidemic parameters. We measured the seroprevalence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in a community sample drawn from Santa Clara County. Methods On April 3-4, 2020, we tested county residents for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 using a lateral flow immunoassay."