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Post by mekon on Jul 22, 2020 12:20:38 GMT
Got a covid antibodies testing letter today. I can get a home test to see if I've already had it. I'm pretty interested actually as my step dad was totally fucked by a pneumonia type thing that resisted all treatment in January and only discharged in March as Covid really kicked off. The doctors at one point told me they really didn't know what it was.
I remember feeling a bit shit for a few days about 3 weeks into the visiting routine and had a little something on my chest but it passed quickly enough, trouble is you go into an old people's ward for 8 weeks and you''ll be lucky not catching anything!
Hopefully if I've got Covid antibodies I can wear a special hat or something that allows me not to social distance .
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Jul 22, 2020 14:38:51 GMT
A lot of researchers are now in agreement that after about 3 months all the antibodies a sufferer had developed will have virtually disappeared. So even if you test negative now, that doesn't mean you've never had it, it just means that you haven't had in in the last 3 months.
That's why some unlucky bastards are getting it twice! At first they noticed it in South Korea and put it down to dodgy tests, but now it looks like you really can get it twice. Herd immunity... not.
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Post by mekon on Jul 22, 2020 14:59:06 GMT
Maybe 3 times is the charm and you then turn into a zombie?
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Post by neilf on Jul 22, 2020 16:05:22 GMT
Well, that's novel viruses for you Clipper!
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Post by mekon on Jul 30, 2020 11:11:05 GMT
Oh well..... I've not had Covid. Jabbed myself, waited 10 minutes and I got a negative.
At least the vfr passed its Mot.
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