Verily is launching a research project to better understand how the human immune system responds to Covid-19.
The company is, Project Baseline, which aims to use the latest technology for longitudinal health care research, to support the pandemic. Its first initiative, Baseline Antibody Research, offers serology testing to those who have already received a nasal swab test from Verily's testing program.testing sites across various sites in California for those who suspect they might have the virus.
But there are wide variations in accuracy across the various test markers. These tests are producing a lot of false positive and false negative results. For that reason,about overly relying on antibody testing for so-called "immunity passports," as we don't yet know whether a positive result means there's conferred immunity.
Participants in the Verily study will be asked to provide blood and nasal samples three times over the course of ten weeks. The study is open to those who have been diagnosed with the virus, as well as those who tested negative. The companythat although Baseline study participants need a Google account, it won't share people's health information with Google for advertising purposes.
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