Introduction
The ability to accurately identify whether individuals are at risk for, infected with, or have an immune response to SARS-CoV-2 is essential to address the COVID-19 pandemic from both a personal and a public health perspective. Reliable testing is critical for:
- Determining the state of an individual’s immune response to exposure.
- Assessing whether an individual is contagious and needs to be quarantined.
- Deciding if an individual is immune and can return to society without undue risk.
- Facilitating contact tracing to reduce viral spread.
- Determining the prevalence and natural history of this novel disease.
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