Wouldn’t the antibody test show what we need to know, that a patient had had the virus and his/her immune system has manufactured antibodies? But the antibody tests are a great secret, if they are really being run. It was stated in the beginning that the antibody test results were being “mistakenly” added into the live positive test result totals- is this still going on? Seems to be all Fake News.
“Wouldn’t the antibody test show what we need to know... “
I don’t know. But Stadler says, in the first link:
“A study by John P A Ioannidis of Stanford University — according to the Einstein Foundation in Berlin one of the world’s ten most cited scientists — showed that immunity against Sars-Cov-2, measured in the form of antibodies, is much higher than previously thought. Ioannidis is certainly not a conspiracy theorist who just wants to swim against the stream; nontheless he is now being criticised, because the antibody tests used were not extremely precise. With that, his critics admit that they do not have such tests yet. And aside, John P A Ioannidis is such a scientific heavy-weight that all German virologists combined are a light-weight in comparison.”
So it seems the antibody tests are missing a lot of people who are immune. But antibodies are just 1 line of defense. We have several. Stadler also:
“In mid-April, work was published by the group of Andreas Thiel at the Charité Berlin. A paper with 30 authors, amongst them the virologist Christian Drosten. It showed that in 34 % of people in Berlin who had never been in contact with the Sars-CoV-2 virus showed nonetheless T-cell immunity against it (T-cell immunity is a different kind of immune reaction, see below). This means that our T-cells, i.e. white blood cells, detect common structures appearing on Sars-CoV-2 and regular cold viruses and therefore combat both of them.”