Blood sample shortage holding up UK work on antibody tests
by Ian Sample Science editor from on (#51WSP)
Not enough people yet known to have recovered from virus to provide sufficient blood
British companies are being held up in their work to create antibody tests for the coronavirus because they cannot access enough blood samples from patients who have recovered from the disease.
Antibody tests will be crucial to identifying people who have had Covid-19 and have developed sufficient immunity to return to work, but firms working on the tests need samples of convalescent blood to develop the tests and check they are accurate.
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