'As soon as they are validated, they'll be out there for people to use,' the country's leading infectious disease expert said of antibody tests
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“But as we look forward, as we get to the point of at least considering opening up the country as it were, it’s very important to appreciate and to understand how much that virus has penetrated this society,” he continued. “Because it’s very likely that there are a large number of people out there that have been infected, have been asymptomatic and did not know they were infected.
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