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CECC downplays results of blood test study By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday downplayed a study earlier this year by Taipei Veterans General Hospital that suggested about 11,800 adults in Taiwan might have contracted the virus that causes COVID-19, based on a seroprevalence rate of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 of 0.05 percent. The center said the study, which was published in the international medical journal Lancet Regional Health Western Pacific in October, cannot reflect the general population. The study’s researchers used residual specimens from blood tests administered to 14,765 adults that visited the hospital’s outpatient and emergency departments over two periods May 25 to 30 and July 6 to 8 and screened them for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

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