Testing for COVID-9: April 27, 2020

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
• Description:
  Two kinds of tests are available for COVID-19: viral tests and antibody tests.
  
  • A viral test tells you if you have a current infection.
  
  • An antibody test tells you if you had a previous infection
  
  An antibody test may not be able to show if you have a current infection, because it can take 1-3 weeks to make antibodies after symptoms occur. We do not know yet if having antibodies to the virus can protect someone from getting infected with the virus again, or how long that protection might last.
  
  Accessed on 2024-07-16 at https://web.archive.org/web/20200427234750/https://cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/testing-in-us.html
  
  
• Subjects:
  Clinical Laboratory Techniques Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis COVID-19 Testing Diagnostic Tests, Routine Laboratories
• Series:
  Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7c251a80276826e96f439e386559b2be9d13ab6fbc6c86602117f8546a9d1072bec832d3b3e22a8fd8819dd9a6ce8395085a7f02dbab58cf7f2dbb7466c9f73d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/87402/cdc_87402_DS1.pdf
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