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Sen. Johnson: No COVID-19 Vaccine Because High Levels of Antibodies Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is not getting a COVID-19 vaccine for now because he still has high levels of antibodies against the virus that causes the disease. Johnson and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) both contracted COVID-19, which is caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, last year. “In my case, I just recently had an antibody test and I have the same level of antibodies as the doctor who prescribed me the test who had just gotten two doses of Moderna,” Johnson told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders.”

By Julia Hollingsworth and Adam Renton, CNN Updated 6:39 p.m. ET, May 19, 2021 What you need to know Olympic organizers said they are doing everything they can to ensure Tokyo 2020 takes place safely, despite doctors' calls for the Games to be canceled as coronavirus cases surge in Japan. The European Union will begin to ease travel restrictions to the bloc, with the EU Council agreeing on measures to allow fully vaccinated foreign visitors in.  The US plans to send 20 million more doses of Covid-19 vaccines overseas, on top of 60 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine. share with Facebook 4...

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What the Coronavirus Variants Mean for Testing Most tests should be able to detect the variants of concern, but test developers and health officials must remain vigilant, scientists say. A man receives a nasal swab at a mobile Covid-19 testing site in  Queens, N.Y., in early April.Credit...Shannon Stapleton/Reuters By Emily Anthes April 14, 2021, 3:00 p.m. ET In January 2020, just weeks after the first Covid-19 cases emerged in China, the full genome of the new coronavirus was published online. Using this genomic sequence, scientists scrambled to design a large assortment of diagnostic tests...