How Much Protection Do Antibodies Give Communities Against Covid?

Students arrive for the first day of classes at a public school in Miami in August.

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Here’s the latest news from the pandemic.

For the last two years, the U.S. has been building a map of our immune systems’ history with Covid-19. Every few weeks, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reviewed tens of thousands of blood samples, looking for antibodies to the virus.