Antibody tests which show that you have had a Covid-19 infection will be rolled out to NHS and care staff from next week. So what happens when you test positive? Carry on as before - and I should know.
A positive result comes, as with a pregnancy test, if you get two lines across the sample window. I did the finger-prick test on camera and was surprised, and pleased, to find that I was positive for antibodies. I've since done further reports on antibody testing and had the same positive result each time. You can see the photo - excuse the blood - of three positive results, although one of them does have a faint line.
So I don't think I missed a story here - the first coronavirus case in the UK was not me. But after that I've had no symptoms at all. Not a cough, not a high temperature, smell and taste normal, and no aches and pains, headaches, diarrhoea, conjunctivitis, skin rash or any of the other possible warning signs listed by the World Health Organization.
Things have moved on a lot since then. There are now several laboratory based antibody tests which seem fairly reliable.
How can you be so sure you did not have covid-19 in January. We were looking for it then so we won't have found it. The case in France where a doctor checked old swabs and found a positive test from December.
I wonder why the big caution on protection conferred by a previous infection, confirmed by a reliable antibody test, when there is so much stock being invested in a vaccine. Surely the best immune response is to the actual virus? Why would a vaccine be better?
I was diagnosed with shingles and white tongue and having read news articles think that could have been it.
I live in Windsor - I flew back from Spain end Jan & few days later had dreadful cough and was out of action for 3 weeks. I’m never sick. Truly think I had it.
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Was it not here before then I was hospitalised 10 days DEC. Breathless, temp 40+, oxygen 8 days, extreme back muscle pain. Discharged with doctors saying we don't know whats been wrong with you. Anybody want to look into it, as I keep coming up against a wall ?
It sounds like your symptoms in early Jan are classic covid-19 and if you haven't even had a slight sniffle since, why do you doubt it was that? I was in Las Vegas mid to end Jan and I was stunned there were no measures beginning to be implemented then. Not even a nod at LAS.
My husband, son, his father-in-law, all had temp, coughs, loss of taste/smell, (weird they thought) 2 weeks of the worst flu ever! In November! Antibiotics did nothing, hubby had 2nd course antibiotics. bring on antibody tests!
Well I'd call January a recent month when you had a' bout' of pneumonia! That says it all!
The finger prick test used here has such a low specificity that the government dumped it as too in accurate. The ones now starting need serum to test for the antibody hence drawn blood into a tube that needs to be spun.
Did he test three times or does he have three hand?! I mean the picture!
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