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Tuesday, April 7. 2020

The antibody test

Now approved by the FDA, but already in use in other countries. The sooner we can get it everywhere here, the better. It might take a week or two. Obviously, if you have recovered from a confirmed case, you are good to go.


Despite the careful caveats in the article, what a positive test basically tells you is that you have been exposed to covid and have immunity to it.  That means you have no to minimal risk, and are no risk to anybody else.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 12:05 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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I was sick about two weeks ago. Overwhelming fatigue for four days, cough, fever chills for 7-8 days. Wife had it too. Kids, not so much. It was probably a seasonal flu, but it sure would be nice to know if we have the Wuhan antibodies. Time for the FDA to stop dicking around with this stuff.
#1 itsatax on 2020-04-07 13:40 (Reply)
Of course, if you have the anti-bodies because you've gotten and recovered from the virus, you win, even if via not cooperating with the social distancing. Those who followed guidelines are looking at having their sentences to confinement extended.

A reward for ignoring the "experts". Those who "took the risk" get to start earning income and try to recover from the economic devastation of the "expert" shutdown.

Question is, in a future outbreak, how many people will follow the government "advice" when it means longer confinement? Deeper economic devastation.
#2 JK Brown on 2020-04-07 13:58 (Reply)
And how does one prove a negative - never sick, now or almost ever even when exposed to brutal kid germs when kids sick, traveled in and around NOLA the whole of Mardi Gras week, the NC another week, flying back and forth to New England, usual activity except for in person work, swimming and eating out......
I don’t see the authority to require such a test to permit me to return to in person work. I find the notion of a registry anathema. Imagine such a discussion for any other disease or condition. We are no longer permitted to report and track STD’s, which have devastating results for those who are infected. Will illegal aliens be subject to it? And having allowed it just this once, what other circumstances will be allowed?
#2.1 Annie on 2020-04-07 14:45 (Reply)
I will guess testing any meaningful amount of people will take months not weeks.
#3 Andrew Stanton on 2020-04-07 14:16 (Reply)
Except that the article specifically states "But just having antibodies does not guarantee immunity from the coronavirus."
#4 FRP on 2020-04-07 14:56 (Reply)
"But just having antibodies does not guarantee immunity from the coronavirus."

That may almost be true, and learning to drive does not mean you're immune from an accident or a madman.
There are no guarantees in this life....except maybe death & taxes.
#4.1 Riick on 2020-04-07 16:27 (Reply)
It’s unclear how long antibodies to Covid-19 confer immunity.

It could be only a few weeks or months instead of years - which would destroy all plans for an effective vaccine.
#4.2 Anin on 2020-04-08 14:34 (Reply)
Unnecessary or excessive risks should be avoided but one thing this episode has shown is how far America has moved towards Nerf World: never wanting anything bad to ever happen to anyone.
#5 Andrew Stanton on 2020-04-07 16:34 (Reply)
Now approved by the FDA, but already in use in other countries.

That tells you everything you need to know about our sclerotic FDA!
#6 mudbug on 2020-04-07 18:59 (Reply)

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