Let’s Talk About The Antibody Tests For Covid-19 — Serological Testing

Deepti Pradhan
8 min readApr 25, 2020

Not all antibody tests are a readout of your capacity to fight off a potential second Covid-19 infection

A typical COVID-19 antibody test setup

As the president of the US escalates his high throughput testing of mindless, and downright harmful ideas and thoughts about how to combat the SARS-CoV-2 a.k.a. the Covid-19 virus, researchers and clinicians continue to strive to develop…

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Deepti Pradhan

Employed at Yale University, Deepti is primarily a scientist & patient advocate. She runs Tilde Cafe, a forum to make science accessible (www.tildecafe.org)