PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (559): immunity duration, South Asia, stillbirths, WHO, global

COVID-19 — Afghanistan
Abstract
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Waning humoral immunity in coronavirus disease patients has raised concern over usefulness of serologic testing. We investigated antibody responses of 58 persons 8 months after asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. For 3 of 4 immunoassays used, seropositivity rates were high (69.0%-91.4%).

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