Johnson County sheriff partners with biotech company to offer COVID-19 antibody tests
Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden announced on Tuesday his office will work with a biotech company to allow employees to test their immunity to COVID-19.
Aditxt, the biotech company the sheriff’s office is partnering with, will draw blood from users and test their antibody levels against COVID-19. Civilian and sworn staff can access the test for free to check their immunity to the virus.
The partnership comes after Kansas Governor Laura Kelly promised late Monday to sign legislation making it easy for workers to avoid COVID-19 vaccine mandates from their workplace.
Aditxt has an immune monitoring technology, AditxtScoreTM, meant to provide a personalized comprehensive profile of the immune system. The Sheriff’s office said in a press release that it is “the only known antibody test that will test to the T-cell level and provide an accurate reading of an individual’s Covid-19 immunity.”
“The testing allows employees to make an informed decision on what to do about their own health,” said Sheriff Calvin Hayden in a statement Tuesday morning. “So far the response has been overwhelmingly positive.”
In an October statement, the sheriff said he will not require employees who are not fully vaccinated to undergo weekly testing for the virus, which at the time went against county rules.
