THREAD: Demand COVID antibody test production be prioritized!

We may *already* have herd immunity. Antibody tests ("serological surveys" in the quote below) are available, if only we focus our efforts on speeding their production, and SO crucial:

2/ "Fundamental principles of epidemic spread highlight the immediate need for large-scale serological surveys to assess the stage of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic....[T]he results we present here suggest the ongoing epidemics in the UK and Italy started at least a month before...

3/ ...the first reported death and have already led to the accumulation of significant levels of herd immunity in both countries. There is an inverse relationship between the proportion currently immune and the fraction of the population vulnerable to severe disease."

4/ --quote from Sunetra Gupta, PhD, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, with an interest in infectious disease agents that are responsible for malaria, HIV, influenza and bacterial meningitis; recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, ...

5/ ...the Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her scientific research.

Abstract here:

https://www.medrxiv.org/conte …/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042291v1