Something we sorted ourselves. Yeah she got tested Thursday and found out last night, so the turnaround is really good.Good luck hope your clear, I had a test last Saturday got the results Sunday impressed with the turn round time, did the track and tracers get you or was it something you sorted yourself?
Unless it’s an antibody test I don’t see the point, you go down without symptoms and the test comes back negative in 3 days but in that time period you could get it! Or the test comes back positive and you should’ve been isolating in that time but haven’t so possibly passed it on!
Centre I went too was one of the army pop up ones drive thru but test self administeredSomething we sorted ourselves. Yeah she got tested Thursday and found out last night, so the turnaround is really good.
My original message missed out that my auntie was walking with a family member in the same household (I was tired this morning). So my contact has been indirect but it makes sense to know we're safe.
Test was very uncomfortable but the staff there were great.
It's a start. I just realised I don't know the name of any of the people I speak to at the match every other week, lol!
Frighteningly so.watched this. uncanny.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/
Yes there is a huge mismatch between fatality rates and antibody results. Either the virus is magically selective in who it infects or there is a missing factor somewhere. I'm beginning to doubt the sensitivity of the tests.I think that there's a problem in how immunity has been discussed.
We are assuming that if you have beaten off nCov you have produced antibodies to it, but what if you had it asymptomatically, or had a mild version? Perhaps the body's innate non-specific system is strong enough in many cases to resist infection. If that is the cases then these measurements of antibodies are actually massively understating the infection rate and they understate the population immunity.
In the UK the maximum levels of antibody prevalence are in London but they are at 17% according to the serological surveys. That's a long way from herd immunity but what if many other Londoners beat it off and never produced antibodies in doing so?
If you look at some of the case studies of hot-spots e.g. Germany, they derive infection fatality rates of around 0.25% (Heinsberg study derived 0.37% but authors believe it's overstated) which means you can derive a prevalence of the illness from a country's excess mortality. If you do that, you get a massive mis-match between antibody measurements and cases which makes me think that innate immunity plays a big part.
Obviously there is more to it than just immunity. R0 is also impacted by lockdowns, and seasonality.
Take this as a football fans comments on immunology and Covid19, but everybody must have an opinion on this matter as it influences so much of our lives.
One explanation is that the virus is quite mild and is fought off by healthy young individuals using existing immunity, these individuals are the asymptomatic cases and can’t be detected by the antibody test because they don’t need to develop antibodies to fight the virus off. This is why it has killed the frail and elderly who have compromised immune systems and left the young and healthy largely unaffected.Yes there is a huge mismatch between fatality rates and antibody results. Either the virus is magically selective in who it infects or there is a missing factor somewhere. I'm beginning to doubt the sensitivity of the tests.