Bo Stapler, MD
1 min readMay 5, 2020

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Great article! As a pediatrician, I recently met with the board at my children’s school to answer questions they had on COVID-19 as they considered whether or not to reopen for the last 3 weeks of the year since our town currently has low prevalence of COVID-19 cases and our state is allowing optional reopening of schools. When considering the virus’s prevalence among children, I’m concerned about the surprisingly high rate of false negatives on the PCR test and wonder if we will see more children than expected have positive antibodies once a valadated antibody test is widely avaliable. Do you have any thoughts on this?

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Bo Stapler, MD
Bo Stapler, MD

Written by Bo Stapler, MD

Health & science writer on Elemental & other pubs. Hospitalist physician in internal medicine & pediatrics. Interpreter of medical jargon. bostapler.medium.com

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