HealthinationA Quick Guide for the Coronavirus Outbreak.On March 11, WHO officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. With much of the country taking steps to open up now or in the near future, hopes are ...

Since late last year, federal officials have been asking, practically begging people to get booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. But more than half of Americans have ignored the request even for a ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- There has been a lot of talk about testing for the coronavirus, but you may not entirely understand what the different tests are for. The coronavirus makes some people sick, some ...

Health experts say the country is days away from widespread coronavirus antibody testing. Instead of detecting the virus itself, the tests detect proteins called antibodies that the immune system ...

CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use approval for Abbott’s latest lab-based COVID-19 IgM antibody test, the company announced Monday. Abbott ...

At a laboratory in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, scientists are analyzing blood samples to determine whether some people have previously had an infection caused by the coronavirus. They have been ...

There are three different ways to test for COVID-19: PCR tests, antigen tests and antibody tests. Each method is best for a different stage of COVID-19 infection. Used in sequence, all three methods ...

Dozens of blood tests are rapidly coming on the market to identify people who have been exposed to the coronavirus by checking for antibodies against it. The Food and Drug Administration doesn't set ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's the next frontier of COVID-19 testing - looking for antibodies to the virus. ABC7 news got an inside look at the San Francisco lab that is validating a coronavirus antibody ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The North Carolina legislature is funding a year-long study that they hope will help state officials determine when they can safely reopen the economy. The state legislature ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Two Triangle hospitals are joining forces to give thousands of people free COVID-19 antibody testing. The catch: those people must donate blood. UNC REX and WakeMed Health are ...

Statewide blood testing for COVID-19 has found that only 2% of Virginians had antibodies to the virus as of mid-August. The result has prompted the researchers to conclude that herd immunity in ...