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Fayetteville Lab Offers COVID-19 Commercial Antibody Testing

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Namida Lab
Mike Rutherford, director of laboratory operations for Namida Lab, monitors the Hamilton Star Plus automated ELISA instrument as it performs the recently validated IgG antibody assay.

Namida Lab, a private CLIA-certified laboratory, is offering COVID-19 serological antibody testing to the public at its facility in Fayetteville. The blood tests, which must be physician approved, can determine exposure to SARS-CoV-2, for both symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers. While such testing can help evaluate virus spread in populations, lab clinicians say the duration of immunity conveyed by COVID-19 antibodies remains unknown at this time.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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