Antibody testing will enhance the power and accuracy of COVID-19-prevention trials
Marc Lipsitch, Rebecca Kahn & Michael J. Mina
Nature Medicine (2020)
Researchers starting clinical trials of prevention measures for COVID-19 have a unique window of opportunity for collecting blood from the participants, at baseline and at the end of the trial, to be able to incorporate critical data into their analysis once serological tests for the causative coronavirus become available.
Strategies for preventing infection with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 are urgently needed. In the short term, these may include antiviral drugs and face masks1, while in the medium to longer term, this may include vaccines2.