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Ross Boyce<\/strong><\/a>, MD, MSc, assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, said there are many unknowns about COVID-19, the illness associated with the virus, and antibody testing.<\/p>\n

The article reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently ordered increased oversight of the hundreds of tests now on the market<\/a>, some of which may provide unreliable results.<\/p>\n

“I think my takeaway right now would be, be careful. It\u2019s just so hard to interpret the results,”\u00a0Boyce<\/strong> told\u00a0WRAL TV<\/a> about antibody testing.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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