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ND Department of Health discusses COVID-19 breakthrough cases

"We will have breakthrough cases, it's inevitable and no vaccine is perfect."

August 26, 2021

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NORTH DAKOTA (KVRR) — The North Dakota Department of Health is discussing breakthrough and reinfection data concerning COVID-19. As more people receive their vaccines against COVID-19 some who are fully vaccinated are testing positive for the virus. Health officials are calling those breakthrough cases. “A breakthrough case is an individual that tests positive for COVID-19 after they are fully vaccinated….

American Red Cross Offering Free Antibody Testing

July 7, 2020

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American Red Cross is now offering a free service for everyone who donates blood. They will be testing the blood of everyone who donates for Covid-19 antibodies. There is an urgent need for blood with only about a weeks worth of it available. While the antibody testing is free to donors, there is a cost for the Red Cross which…

Essentia Health Launches Serology Testing

The Serology tests will be sent to Mayo Clinic Laboratories.

April 27, 2020

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FARGO, N.D.–Essentia Health has begun serology testing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Serology testing will help determine if someone has had recent or prior infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. According to Essentia Health physician Dr. Elena Rodgers-Rieger, serology testing is “a blood-based test that looks for the presence of antibodies, which are produced by the immune…