CNN anchor Chris Cuomo introduced Monday night time that he's coronavirus free and was discovered to have antibodies that may doubtlessly assist shield him from reinfection.
“So, I examined adverse — I don’t have the virus,” Cuomo, who was identified a couple of month in the past, stated on his present. “Good for me. I additionally examined to point out that I've each antibodies.”
However Cuomo questioned if the event is a motive to have fun contemplating the World Well being Group lately cautioned that the presence of coronavirus antibodies doesn't show immunity towards the illness.
“Right here’s the brand new factor, do I actually have nice information. What does it imply that I've antibodies? Am I actually immune? Do they know?” Cuomo overtly contemplated earlier than consulting on-air with CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
“There’s a variety of confusion about what it does and doesn’t imply,” Cuomo stated.
Gupta instructed Cuomo that “presumably you’re going to have some safety towards this.”
“The factor is, that we have to show it out,” continued Gupta. “We have to take a while to truly present that these antibodies are literally going to guard you.”
The WHO’s Saturday warning runs counter to what many survivors thought may very well be their ticket to freedom from COVID-19 lockdowns.
“Some governments have urged that the detection of antibodies … might function the premise for an ‘immunity passport’ or ‘risk-free certificates,’” the WHO stated.
“There's presently no proof that individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are shielded from a second an infection.”
Regardless of the uncertainty over antibody effectiveness, Cuomo vowed to donate his blood plasma, which can be utilized to deal with coronavirus sufferers.
“If they need the blood, I’m gonna give it to them as a result of that's the neatest thing I’ve heard of up to now by way of what I can do to assist as somebody who was sick,” Cuomo stated.
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