Weirdly I Found Out I Have Had Coronavirus

[bednobs]

Despite me being sceptical about the point of an antibody test (still am really) my curiosity got the better of me and I got an antibody test done. I had a cough and felt rough for a few days in January and I think that musthe be when I had it.

[woofgang]

As I said elsewhere, vendors have been asked to stop selling the kits temporarily. https://www.babylonhealth.com/coronavirus/covid-19-antibody-test

[Barsel]

It makes me wonder about a lady who was in the bed next to mine when I was in hospital in February. I'd never heard a cough like it before and she coughed all the time even all through the night and she was really poorly. The next day her health deteriorated and she was moved into a side ward. The other patients and I all said we had never heard a cough like that before. It does make you wonder if it was around earlier than we thought.

[Peter Pedant]

well my dears

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-phe-laboratory-evaluations-of-roche-and-abbott-antibody-tests/

even if he has been paid to say this
he certainly talks the talk
No magic figure ( PPV ) but it looks as tho it is the high nineties which is good enough
and very correctly says - oh cam arn - it cant be 100%

[jno]

well, here's a widow wondering if her husband (a musician I've not heard of) had it in January

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/01/spate-of-possible-uk-coronavirus-cases-from-2019-come-to-light

[Old_Geezer]

See ? Nothing to worry about ;-)

[Cloverjo]

A friend went into hospital recently to have her baby. She wasn’t tested. Why not? Crazy.
Since then the hospital has shut its doors because of C19. No A&E or anything.

[ummmm]

Was she in a room by herself?

[TheDevil]

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-antibody-tests/coronavirus-covid-19-antibody-tests

"We’re at the beginning of our antibody testing programme, and are prioritising NHS and care home staff who would like to be tested."

Evidently bednobs is NHS or care staff.

[roopower]

I'm fairly sure I had it in the middle of march, possibly caught off my brother in law who was really ill. I had no temperature or cough but lost my sense of taste and smell, had two days when I couldn't get warm and was wiped out for nearly two weeks. I did have some tightness in my chest but as I suffer from sleep apnoea, I have a mask at night and also brown inhaler night and morning, am
wondering if these helped to fend anything more serious off. My son was off colour for a few days, cough and exhaustion he takes hydroxychloroquine for his rheumatoid arthritis and was on high doses of vitamin D. He's coming to the end of his sheltering and should be tested when he returns to the hospital where he works. Will be interesting to see the result.

[bednobs]

evidently the devil does not read the answers

[tiggerblue10]

My senior manager had cold like symptoms last November/December but also had an awful cough which went on for weeks.

My manager then had a cold in December and then I had one as well. I didn't have a cough so it was probably just a normal cold but I would still like to get tested.

[naomi24]

I and several people I know suspect we have had the virus. I would like a test - if only to know that I survived it.

[Peter Pedant]

the important siade is that the test should have a very low false positive - incorporated you will be glad to know, into the figure called 'PPV' - that is the chance that it says you are immune when you arent is an absolute minimum ( they are saying 5% at present I think)

and the fella I referred to above - has taken that into account

[HIV - the last thing you need is to be told you dont have it when you do - they make sure the false negative rate is zero]

[bednobs]

Pp as i understand it you are wrong the test has nothing at all to do with whether you are immune as no one yet knows if antibodies confer immunity