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Antibody tests aren’t the “game changer” many hoped they’d be. Plus: Feeling sore from your new socially distant work setup? You’re not alone.

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No, America hasn’t quietly reached herd immunity.

That’s the takeaway from the earliest serosurveys—studies that use antibody testing to check for immunity in the population. Many people hoped that such testing would be a “game changer,” revealing a widespread

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