[aggregation-styles] UCI News Irvine - Testing a representative sample of Orange County residents for a wide range of coronavirus antibodies, University of California, Irvine researchers found that 11.5 percent of them have antibodies for COVID-19, in contrast to previous estimates of less than 2 percent. Latino and low-income residents had...
Large Antibody Study Offers Hope for Virus Vaccine Efforts
Antibodies that people make to fight the new coronavirus last for at least four months after diagnosis and do not fade quickly as some earlier reports suggested, scientists have found. Tuesday’s report, from tests on more than 30,000 people in Iceland, is the most extensive work yet on the immune...
Want to Know If You’ve Had COVID-19? Fresno LVN Will Test You at Your Home
Wonder whether you've had COVID-19, but you don't want to leave the house to get blood drawn for antibody testing? Now you don't have to. Sylvia Sandoval and her husband Eddie are providing the service through their Fresno company O Labs, which they had set up earlier this year to...
Red Cross Starts COVID-19 Antibody Testing in Merced Area
The American Red Cross began testing all blood, platelet and plasma donations for COVID-19 antibodies in the Merced area Monday. The antibody test is authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and may indicate if the donor’s immune system has produced antibodies to the coronavirus, regardless of whether an...
‘Doubly Great News’ Says Participant in Moderna’s COVID Vaccine Trial
Moderna's experimental vaccine against the coronavirus showed encouraging results in very early testing. COVID-19 antibodies were found in all 45 participants, the biotech company announced Monday in a news release. Neal Browning of Bothell, Washington, spoke to GV Wire via Zoom on Monday morning. "I'm the second person to receive the...
Where Are Fresno COVID Antibody Tests? Health Officer: 'I Emailed the State.'
"We're not doing any antibody testing right now," answered interim Fresno County Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra in response to a question Monday during a teleconference. "That's something that we're still waiting to start." His answer came on the heels of a large study by USC and the Los Angeles Department...
Fresno COVID-19 Cases Jump Past 200 in Latest Report from Health Department
Ten more cases of COVID-19 were reported in Fresno County on Saturday, bringing the local total to 201 infections. The latest case count was reported in a news release from the Fresno County Health Department. Seventy cases have been attributed to community spread, while 36 are travel related and 60 resulted...
Fresno County Reports Two More Deaths From COVID-19
The Fresno County Public Health Department reported two more deaths Friday attributed to COVID-19. In a teleconference with reporters, the county said it has 191 cases, 36 of those travel-related, and 69 from community spread. The two deaths were both described as "elderly gentleman" by the county health department. That...