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cord-324316-ulb8d5fe	Bramstedt, Katrina A.	Antibodies as Currency: COVID-19’s Golden Passport	2020-08-25		.txt	text/plain	1398	73	49	Due to COVID-19, the fragile economy, travel restrictions, and generalized anxieties, the concept of antibodies as a "declaration of immunity" or "passport" is sweeping the world. Numerous scientific and ethical issues confound the concept of an antibody passport; nonetheless, antibodies can be seen as a potential currency to allow movement of people and resuscitation of global economics. In this way, antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2-the COVID-19 coronavirus) are potentially the new golden passport, but the concept is a moving target with clinical unknowns, as well as legal and ethical complexity (Phelan 2020; Persad and Emanuel 2020) . With the COVID-19 pandemic causing a fragile worldwide economy and millions of people unemployed (Congressional Research Service 2020), there is a risk of antibody certificates being viewed as the "golden passport" to return to work and travel. Show me your passport: Ethical concerns about Covid-19 antibody testing as key to reopening public life	./cache/cord-324316-ulb8d5fe.txt	./txt/cord-324316-ulb8d5fe.txt