Cleveland.com Asks NEOMED Professor About Antibody Testing

April 9, 2020

Antibody testing has become an increasingly popular topic in daily COVID-19 briefings.

Angelo DeLucia, Ph.D., an associate professor of molecular virology and cancer biology at Northeast Ohio Medical University, tells Cleveland.com, “Checking for the antibodies could show not only whether a person contracted the infection, but how likely the person was to spread it.”

Testing a person’s antibodies also allows health care workers to determine if that person has developed immunity to diseases, such as COVID-19.

Read Dr. DeLucia’s full interview with Cleveland.com.