
Using an orthogonal antibody testing approach, we estimated that about 0.6% of nontriaged adults from the greater Vancouver, Canada, area between May 17 and June 19, 2020, showed clear evidence of a prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, after adjusting for false-positive and false-negative test results. However, this has been difficult to quantify at the population level due to a lack of reliably defined seroreactivity thresholds. Preexisting cross-reactivity to SARS-CoV-2 occurs in the absence of prior viral exposure.
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