If you are a medical professional, we hope to hear from you. Good monday evening. The doctor will be joining us. He will be going to a different location in washington dc for the interview. We want to begin as we always do with numbers, courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Confirmed118,000 deaths. Of coronavirus. The death toll surpassing 23,000. From the university of alabama, the school of medicine. Therote a piece for washington post. This is the headline. He wrote the following, despite all of my knowledge of Infectious Diseases and how this virus was addicted to behave, i was not prepared for the toll it takes. It is less about how i felt moment to moment but rather the fear of the unknown. Ofas plagued by my knowledge what was happening biologically. I knew that my symptoms were this will not be the last time a virus skips from animal to human. It should be the last time we are so unprepared. The experience has been a humbling lesson. We can modify and lessen the symptoms, but h
Questions. What is the plan for testing people who have had or believe they have had covid19 and recovered . Is a test being developed to determine immunity . The doctor mentioned that a little bit ago. The test that determines, not if you are infected but if you have been infected and you have what they call antibodies against the virus, which is a sign that you have been exposed and infected, but it could be in indication that you are now immune and essentially protected from being infected again. Are still a lot of unknowns that we need to be careful of because we still do not know the relationship between the level of antibody and the degree of protection. Total not sure what the immunity is. Many of these antibody tests that are out there have not been completely and totally validated. Telling us that they are butistent and reproducible, the answer to the question, when we do get an antibiotic that can be widely distributed, we can get an idea of the degree of exposure of the gene
Anthony fauci. Thank you for being with us on cspan. We appreciate it. To the get right questions. What is the plan for testing people who have had or believe they have had covid19 and recovered . Is a test being developed to determine immunity . The doctor mentioned that a little bit ago. The test that determines, not if you are infected but if you have been infected and you have what they call antibodies against the virus, which is a sign that you have been exposed and infected, but it could be in indication that you are now immune and essentially protected from being infected again. Are still a lot of unknowns that we need to be careful of because we still do not know the relationship between the level of antibody and the degree of protection. Total not sure what the immunity is. Many of these antibody tests that are out there have not been completely and totally validated. Telling us that they are butistent and reproducible, the answer to the question, when we do get an antibiotic
Had coronavirus and recovered . Is a test being developed to determine immunity . Yes. Test that determines not if you are infected but if you had been infected and you have what is called antibodies against the virus, which is a sign you have been exposed and infected, but could be an indication that you are immune and protected from reinfection with the identical virus. One that continues to circulate. There are a lot of unknowns. We still dont know yet the levelonship between the of antibody and the degree of protection. We are not sure what the total correlate to immunity is. The other issue that needs to be worked out is that many of these Antibody Tests have not been completely and totally validated by the fda and nih. We are in the process of validating, telling us they are consistent and reproducible. The bottom line answer to the question, when we get an Antibody Test that can be widely nistributed, we can get a idea of the general exposure of the population come which gets ba