SoftBank to offer coronavirus antibody tests for all employees

Pretty soon it’s going to be easier to find out if you had coronavirus than to find out if you have it.

Like him or not at least Son is doing things about this. Good on him.

Is it welcome by employees? I wonder. Those who are found positive will be secluded for more than two weeks and their families and the person himself of herself will be discriminated in their offices.

80% of the contracted live without knowing it and get cured naturally. When cure medicine is not available, what is the use of going to test to find whether contracted or not. That is the reason Japan was not in rush to test all the people. People can receive tests only when doctors think it is necessary. I think it was discreet to avoid confusions and fall of the medical system.

There is no point in this testing, since it is unknown if there is any immunity after infection.

Softbank always took the lead, other companies should follow since government is not doing anything about increasing testing any time soon.

Peter Neil

Not true about not knowing about immunity. All people show antibodies after recovering after any virus and covid 19 too. It is just not well known and needs to be studied more.

vanityofvanities. I believe more like over 95% get it and do not need any serious hospitalization.

Those who are found positive will be secluded for more than two weeks and their families and the person himself of herself will be discriminated in their offices.

I think maybe you don’t understand the nature of an antibody test. It’s used to show that you’ve had the disease and recovered from it. Antibody tests will not show that someone is infected with the disease at the time of the test.

How long can people get enough antibodies after infections? Those who contracted in the immediate past, their antibodies are not enough to show positive. The antibody test cannot show when the person contracted the disease.

I like Son. I hate all phone companies and I know he lost a lot of money big time, but his heart really does seem in the right place.

I really don't understand why some people are too pessimist on comments regarding it every time. Oh well! I think if he is willing to help those people, why not give credit to him in this case?

Is there any information about the nature of these tests and their accuracy? I've read elsewhere that no reliable antibody test has been developed yet.

Antibodies do not always equal immunity.

Immunity may be short-lived, such as with rhinovirus. You don't have any long-term immunity from antibodies after a cold.

There are different covid-19 strains.

Information on a new strain was just sequenced, meaning Vaccine A for Strain Y (if one can be developed at all) will not work against Strain Y.

Information on a new strain was just sequenced, meaning Vaccine A for Strain Y (if one can be developed at all) will not work against Strain Y.

Is that something a scientist has stated?

Of course. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Please Google away to verify it. I've never written anything about covid-19 that wasn't based on information from or by scientists or medical doctors.