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Back to work? Not without a check-in app, immunity passport

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By Rina Chandran

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"There is not enough evidence about the effectiveness of antibody-mediated immunity to guarantee the accuracy of an immunity passport or risk-free certificate," it said in April.

Now, it is necessary to be perfectly clear about this, it does not mean that antibodies are useless, or that you can get the infection repeatedly as some people misunderstood. It means we still don't know precisely what levels of antibodies are protective, how long the antibodies are maintained after infection or if a person can shed viruses (and transmit the infection) even if protected by his antibodies.

Maybe everything is fine, people are protected for life and levels of antibody in the blood can prove they are immune, but we still don't have the data to prove it, so the "immunity passports" are not based on science and it is still possible that they don't work, causing outbreaks because someone thought to be protected was not. Proper evidence will come in time.

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Firms are also developing their own systems including Bluetooth-enabled devices, and using artificial intelligence to track employees' movements and social distancing.

This is a very shady and undefined line. I don’t like the sound of this at all

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