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MORE: The first large-scale community test of 3,300 people in Santa Clara County found that 2.5 to 4.2% of those tested were positive for antibodies—a number suggesting a far higher past infection rate than the official count. https://t.co/6w2yepDeln
— ABC News (@ABC) April 17, 2020
Hopefully, this antibody test is specific for COVID 19 and not a general coronavirus test. There were earlier articles that mentioned initial antibody tests had to be followed up because they did not distinguish among various types of coronavirus, many of which are basically varieties of the common cold (which are normally caused by rhinoviruses).