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Stanford made COVID-19 tests available for health care workers. Now, it's considering wider distribution

Original post made on Apr 15, 2020

As the scientific community races to create tests for COVID-19 and end the shutdown, Stanford University is trying to speed up the production of its new antibody test, which was made available to its health care workers last week.

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Posted by James Thurber
a resident of Shoreline West
on Apr 15, 2020 at 5:50 pm

Five Stars for Stanford for ramping up so quickly. Until we know who has been exposed and has created antibodies we won't know when / how we can begin to ramp back up.

Thank you for a job VERY well done, Stanford. Keep up the good work.


Posted by mimo
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Apr 16, 2020 at 10:45 am

About two weeks ago, Stanford collected 3.2k blood samples for the purpose of immunity testing:

Web Link

According to the article: "The results, expected to be released within a week, ..."

Where are the results? Anyone knows?

Many companies not only developed the test, but already received FDA approvals: "the Food and Drug Administration has approved 34 emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 diagnostic tests as of Tuesday" -- where is Stanford's test. So much for Stanford's glory...


Posted by member
a resident of another community
on Apr 27, 2020 at 9:03 am

I agree. I was told we would get our results within 2-3days. Still waiting....


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