Posted on 05/14/2020 5:23:30 PM PDT by rktman
DidDid you get seriously sick this year? Have you, like many others, been wondering if it was COVID-19? “I get emails every day,” says George Rutherford, a University of California San Francisco epidemiologist. They say things like, “I think I might have had it. I really want to know,” he says.
Maybe you’ve been tempted by the wave of antibody tests that recently hit the market — but don’t think that just because you can buy a test, it will be accurate.
There are lots of tests available, but it’s not entirely clear which ones are best. Tests can go wrong in several places: by choosing the wrong proteins to look for, by using the wrong chemicals in the test itself, or by making the test badly. For instance, the UK paid $20 million for antibody tests that didn’t work. "“It’s kind of like the wild West.”"
The US Food and Drug Administration allowed test makers to market their antibody tests, even if they hadn’t undergone review by the agency. The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) has raised concerns about this: “We now have at least 90 tests on the market, and we don’t know about the accuracy of the results,” Kelly Wroblewski, APHL’s director of infectious disease programs, told USA Today.
“It’s kind of like the wild West,” says Janko Nikolich-Zugich, the head of the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson’s department of immunobiology. One of the reasons the University of Arizona wound up making its own antibody test was because it wasn’t clear how reliable other ones might be, he says.
(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...
“the University of Arizona wound up making its own antibody test was because it wasn’t clear how reliable other ones might be, he says.”
If you are competent in practice, trust yourself.
Fauxcy is likely a fraud.
I don’t know if I had it. I don’t care if I had it. Just let me live life.
my mother is 87 and the senior center is closed until September. all of these people in their late 80s and early 90s are saying just let us live life and play cards. We don’t need to live to a hundred.
The whole thing is crazy.
I bought stock in that company that the UK lost the $20 million on.
I sold when things first started to look questionable.
I made $40
Here's an idea. Freedom. Protect the vulnerable. Explain the risks so that everyone can make their own decisions. You don't want to open your business. Don't. You don't want to work. Go on assistance. Rely on free markets and capitalism.
Start a Nervous Nellie colony in the San Joaquin Valley, and let the rest of us get on with our lives.
Why would anyone want to get on the government's radar?
Read the HIPAA disclosure to find out what the Feds are allowed.
Abbott is supposed to be better test (like 100%/99% on the 2 scales measured). Heard it is available at Quest Diagnostics.
I have not had any tests but it’s the one I want to get.
I saw a grid comparing the antibody tests.
Is Verge concern trolling that people shouldn’t even bother? Or are they trying to be Consumer Reports?
“Start a Nervous Nellie colony in the San Joaquin Valley, and let the rest of us get on with our lives”
Good idea!
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Abbot Labs claims their antibody test is better than 99 percent accurate. Of course, this article fails to name those on the “list” of the tests that aren’t accurate.
Trust the tests from china./s
Tanzania:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3841970/posts
“Magufuli said on Sunday the imported test kits were faulty as they had returned positive results on a goat and a pawpaw — among several non-human samples submitted for testing”
I clicked over and read the piece. Given that it’s the Verge, I figured it would be the usual left-wing propaganda.
Instead, it’s a straighforward news piece, and appears an honest effort to provide a clear picture of where the antibody tests are standing at the moment.
Huh?
Here’s a question. Am I going to be covered by my insurance company if I refuse the test? They already push this bullshit if I don’t have a yearly physical. Punishes me for
$50 a month.
Hello again. We are very blessed. As it so happens, my husband’s mother (92) has still been living at her own home with a caregiver coming 3x a week. Mom has recently started cancer treatment. She says the same thing, “I’m not afraid of this CoVid virus, and I’m not afraid to die. Just let me live what’s the rest of my life as I choose, visiting with friends and family. They are precious to me.”
So last week, my husband went to help out his Mom. She was so happy to see him and be with him. We are so grateful that she is still living in her own home and not at assisted living. It could never have happened if she was in a facility like that.
Cherished moments.
The Faucis of the world cannot take that away from us now.
Amen.
I love that story. Some ignorant backwards Tanzanian President outsmarted the fraudulent CHICOMS. Brilliant.
Wait is what our local health care provider says for now as reliability should be a lot better once the dust settles and the mfrs. get the hang off it.
The Roche antibody test got approved by the FDA and is a “blood draw”/serology type that is more accurate. You have to find a lab with a Roche PCR machine and I think it may cost about $150.00 for the test?
https://www.roche.com/media/releases/med-cor-2020-04-17.htm
https://www.roche.com/strongertogether/covid-19-antibodies-immunity.htm
https://diagnostics.roche.com/us/en/products/params/elecsys-anti-sars-cov-2.html
The first “finger stick” COVID-19 antibody test (less accurate):
https://www.biomedomics.com/products/infectious-disease/covid-19-rt/
Here was the article and comparison chart I saw a week or two ago
That was a beautiful post. Everything you said was right
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