# What are the antibody tests showing now as of late june **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [June 25, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-antibody-tests-showing-now-as-of-late-june/913013 "2020-06-25T16:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-antibody-tests-showing-now-as-of-late-june/913013/21 "2020-07-14T01:35:01Z")
FWIW [another … small … study](https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/sars-cov-2-reactive-t-cells-found-in-patients-with-severe-covid-19-67695) with roughly consistent results. [quote]… The latest study provides more solid evidence that there are SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells that are induced by the infection, says [Antonio Bertoletti](https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/directory/detail/antonio-bertoletti), who studies T cells at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore and was not involved in the work. This is important because researchers have put a lot of emphasis on antibodies, he adds, but it’s still not clear whether antibodies or T cells are more important for protection from the virus. … … de Vries and colleagues collected blood from 10 COVID-19 patients—four women and six men admitted to the intensive care unit with acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring ventilation—and 10 healthy volunteers. The team exposed the study participants’ immune cells to a pool of predicted SARS-CoV-2 peptides in vitro to see whether or not the cells would react. … … **The study authors reported that two [of ten] healthy controls also had circulating SARS-CoV-2-fighting T cells, something that showed up in healthy controls in the study of milder cases of COVID-19 in May. “A likely explanation is that this is reflective of exposure to common cold coronaviruses** which . . . are cousins of SARS-CoV-2,” Sette says. … [/quote] Bolding mine. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-antibody-tests-showing-now-as-of-late-june/913013/22 "2020-07-14T01:53:21Z")
> [@PoppaSan](#): > > Kind of wish the blood drive people would sample test their collections. They’ve already done the gathering. Local paper just told me they are doing that, around here. Antibody test, not the one for current infection. They send you the results, several days later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-antibody-tests-showing-now-as-of-late-june/913013.md?page=1)