Posted on 03/18/2020 2:49:46 PM PDT by LibWhacker
I’ll wager the FDA will shoot down that test because they don’t want the public to know the answer to that specific question.
I think my son had it around Christmas and I was infected with a very mild case. And, supposedly, according to the “authorities” the virus had not yet made it here from China. I think that is a big fat BS lie!!!!!!!!!
The disease that you need a test to discern whether or not you have it. But learning you have it generally has no meaning except to further damage the economy.
I don’t think it needs FDA approval because it’s not a medical diagnostic test.
It’s a research tool.
The research will get done, but the media won’t report on it, they’ll be on to the next crisis that will bring Trump down.
Such a test would more useful sooner (like all of them), before too many people are infected and render the test moot.
MIT press release.
These tests to assay antibodies against the virus are good are straightforward to develop.
Still takes a fair amount of time.
They can be very high on false positives and it takes time to work out reliable conditions to minimize them.
Makes perfect sense.... now start cranking them out and distributing them.
What I don’t understand is how HIV is considered the cause of AIDS when all they test for are the antibodies. Yet with COVID they consider having the antibodies as proof you had it and your body defeated it?
cool! thanks for the post.
Seems to me this would be very useful for determining who can safely work with coronavirus patients or who really needs to isolate after exposure.
Mid January I had a very bad illness, different in nation, it absolutely wiped me out, extreme fatigue last 2 weeks, began with sore throat.
Nature, not nation
You can have antibodies and not win.
Book marking.
I agree. Also that British dude and his wife that chronicled their ChiComFlu experience from that cruise ship in Japan said that the 14 day thing is basically a joke. They figure it was more like a month...at best.
Looking at the numbers, that seems increasingly likely to me. Any reasonable estimate of the ratio of detected to undetected cases makes this pandemic seem much less formidable. The greatest problem we're facing is the overreaction.
Remember this book?
Count Dracula sues.......
because you can recover from Covid-19, but not from HIV.
re:Seems to me this would be very useful for determining who can safely work with coronavirus patients or who really needs to isolate after exposure.
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absolutely.
it could also identify those who could donate plasma for treatment.
It might lead to you self-isolating to prevent spreading the disease. It might lead to you notifying people who have been around you that you have tested positive, so they should be tested themselves. It might lead to you telling your physician that you have tested positive, so he or she can take special precautions around you, and so you can obtain medications that have shown promise in treating COVID-19 infections, such as chloroquine and remdesivir.
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