(Bloomberg) -- New York City will offer antibody tests for more than 150,000 health-care workers and first responders, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
Testing may begin next week, with a goal to test all the workers within a month, through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The tests, to be offered at hospitals, firehouses, police stations and corrections facilities, indicate likely past infection to the new coronavirus, according to the mayor’s office. Positive tests do not mean full protection, according to slides presented during his virus briefing.
