This California Town Is Testing Every Resident for Coronavirus and Antibodies

This California Town Is Testing Every Resident for Coronavirus and Antibodies
A medical professional administers a coronavirus test at a drive-thru testing location at the Bolinas Fire Department in Bolinas, Calif., on April 20, 2020. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
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A remote Northern California hamlet became one of the first places in the world on Monday to attempt to comprehensively test all of its residents for COVID-19, and the antibodies that are believed to make one immune from infection.

The community-wide free testing effort in Bolinas, California, is voluntary. The town is one of two communities taking part in the new study launched by the University of California, San Francisco with the aim of gaining a more complete understanding of how the virus invisibly spread during the initial shortfall of comprehensive nationwide testing.