Opko Health Inc (OPK)

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OPKO Health Unit to Begin Testing MTA Employees for Covid-19 Antibodies
2:45 pm ET April 29, 2020 (Dow Jones) Print

By Maria Armental

OPKO Health Inc.'s BioReference Laboratories will begin testing New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers for Covid-19 antibodies under a partnership with New York state.

BioReference will also offer the serological antibody tests nationwide and aims to test 400,000 people a day by mid-May.

"Testing for antibodies is the next logical step to help employers and employees countrywide make decisions as to how to move forward with their jobs and personal lives," said Dr. Jon R. Cohen, BioReference's executive chairman and senior vice president of OPKO Health.

Results, the company noted, signify that antibodies are present, but protective immunity based on these results hasn't been established.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday discussed preliminary data from antibody testing of New York City fire department employees, including emergency medical technicians, and New York City police officers and said transit workers' testing would begin today.

Write to Maria Armental at [e-mail]

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

April 29, 2020 14:45 ET (18:45 GMT)

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