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Every time someone mentions about an antibody test, I've been asking which strain it's supposed to test, as there are at least two strains found by scientists that many scientists seem to agree with, but there may be even more strains. Nobody has given me any answers so far.
Does anybody know if this test is supposed to be able to detect different strains of COVID-19? I am not sure if anybody should go back to work if the person has only had one strain, but not the other strain... Or does having been infected by one strain make the person immune to the other strain?
Any discussions around antibodies and immunity has revolved around looking at other viruses and using historical information to project how COVID-19 behaves. Nobody has made a declarative statement on COVID-19 immunity because there is not enough data to reach any conclusions. The first case of it only showed up less than four months ago. There hasn’t been enough time since infected people have recovered for there to be a way to reach any conclusions about long term effects or multiple strains.