Good news: Antibody tests validated!
Bad news (I think) : They've realised that under 40s diagnosed who had mild symptoms didn't actually develop antibodies and the virus was killed by other cells in the body. Now unlikely to be immune.
I've found the abstract of the original paper that the article was based on, there's a link to download the full pdf in there if anyone's interested.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047365v1
Could you ask your daughter to get off the fence, please? ;-)To quote my registrar daughter:
"Basically it’s utter shite for the purpose they wanted to use it for and they need to go back to the drawing board."
She then reflected for a minute then said:
"About the only thing it is useful for is to identify people who have definately had the virus and can give blood from which plasma can be extracted "
She's a straight talker. ;-)Could you ask your daughter to get off the fence, please? ;-)
So we have a bunch of people who it affected so insignificantly it didn't even register an antibody response.
Surely promising?
So we have a bunch of people who it affected so insignificantly it didn't even register an antibody response.
Surely promising?
So we have a bunch of people who it affected so insignificantly it didn't even register an antibody response.
Surely promising?
It's great for the person who it's hardly affected, until they get it again (because they havent produced an antibody) and it's more severe for them the next time or they keep getting it and keep spreading it.
Yeah in that way it's good. The flipside not so though. It means they can get infected again though and carry on spreading it. For someone my age, below 40, presuming my body dealt with it the same way, it means I'm not safe to see loved ones even if I've had it once. I'm not safe to go out at all really potentially. Could just keep getting it and spreading it asymptomatically. Naff.