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Covid-19 Seroprevalence - Do the Results Advance the Aims?

Version 1 : Received: 25 August 2020 / Approved: 27 August 2020 / Online: 27 August 2020 (12:47:12 CEST)

How to cite: Almogy, G. Covid-19 Seroprevalence - Do the Results Advance the Aims?. Preprints 2020, 2020080622. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202008.0622.v1 Almogy, G. Covid-19 Seroprevalence - Do the Results Advance the Aims?. Preprints 2020, 2020080622. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202008.0622.v1

Abstract

Seroprevalence studies suggest that the number of PCR-confirmed COVID-19 cases is significantly smaller than the true number of infections. I study logintidual seroprevalence data from 7 sites across the US, from early April 2020 to June 27. I show that not only COVID-19 seroprevalence does not seem to increase over time, there is no clear association between the number of cases reported during a period and the change in seroprevalence during the same time. I conclude that as they are, seroprevalence studies can only be used in the qualitative sense and distinguish between populations with no COVID-19 exposure, to those populations where the virus had already started spreading.

Keywords

Serology; Seroprevalence; Humoral response; COVID-19; serosurvey; epidemiology

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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