According to Christopher Farnsworth, an instructor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine, "antibody testing is really helpful in monitoring how widely a virus has spread within a community. Such testing could help determine how many people have recovered from the virus, even if they never had symptoms."
Thus, antibody tests could potentially play a very important role if and when schools should reopen, or when professional sports will return.
However, the CDC has acknowledged that antibody testing can frequently be inaccurate, especially in populations where there is a low prevalence of the coronavirus.
In fact, under certain scenarios, “less than half of those testing positive will truly have antibodies,” the agency says.
This is particularly dangerous because it could lead to individuals believing they have been infected with the coronavirus, and acting as if they have immunity, when that is not the case.
What second test did they do that showed the first test to be a false positive?
In other words, how do they know the first test was inaccurate?
To me it’s obvious that there is an enormous political effort to keep the - before March - cases unreported, thus maintain a higher death rate and revel in “spikes.”
The California population had it around Chinese New Year - all cases not in the number.
I had it along with my family and at least 10 people I know - none of us are in the number.
The CDC is unreliable and not acting in citizen’s best interests.
So what they’re saying is the odds are almost as good as saying “heads says I have the antibodies” and flipping a coin?
Even better its free and a lot quicker.
What a mess...
Let’s say you have 1% positive for real in a population.
A thousand people take the test. If it is 95% accurate, then it is 5% inaccurate (false positive). 5% of 1,000 is 50 people who test false positive.
The real positives are 10 people. The false test positives are 50 people.
See how every a very good test can have more false positives than real ones? It can’t be helped. Tests are not perfect.
The way the MSM and CDC worded it made it sound awful, but it’s not.
It’s just spin.
Do math before you freak out.
Even the new-improved Abbott and Roche FDA-approved antibody tests?
I smell a RAT here!!!! Perhaps the CDC doesn’t want anyone to know that they have recovered from the virus and are presumptively immune! They may want continuing social control instead!!!!
The fda changed the definition of pos covid rna testing from at. Least 2 targets to only 1. 1 of the targets is simply not specific to covid 19. If that was your pos, then of course you wouldn’t have antibodies.
Multiple targets are standard in molecular because there is a high false pos rrate.
Gen 1 antibody tests are usually fraught with problems due to the uniqueness of immune responses, which are used to develop them.
In the 2017-18 epidemic, there were 48.8 million cases but yet over 280 million people never caught it, including me, despite no shut downs, no social distancing and no masks......
So my humble opinion is that you are either going to catch it or you won't and any actions you make take to try and protect yourself from contracting it are just a useless waste of time........