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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I suppose thats one way that the antibody test will be useful, if only to find out when it started.  But there are many covid viruses and also all the other viruses haven't gone away. Many people die of other flu viruses every year too.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SkylarksSkylarks Posts: 379
    Yes, only an antibody test will confirm. 

    I didn’t have the flu jab.

    Interesting about conjunctivitis being one of the symptoms as I wasn’t aware of that. I did have that a couple of weeks after and put it down to the fact I was run down. 
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    All over Christmas my pharmacy was inundated with people with a cough that wouldn’t go away, feeling tired and lethargic and no appetite and we completely sold out of chloramphenicol eye drops and ointments. Coincidence?? I don’t think so! 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    My oldest boy had conjunctivitis with it too. It's such an odd virus and seems to throw up all kinds of random symptoms in different people.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Sadly people are hoping for to much from the antibody test. The reason scientists have been holding back from using it, is that it produces a lot of false positives, and probably, but not for certain, some false negatives too.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    NZ went into Level 4 fairly quickly - only allowing residents to fly in by a certain date.  The major 4 cities are not exactly overcrowded but they are nevertheless cities and there are over a million in Auckland.  Anyway, the two countries (Oz & NZ) just shut up shop!  Apparently the PM, her party and some of the opposition have taken a 20% pay cut for 6 months to get the country back on its feet.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
     
    punkdoc said:
    Sadly people are hoping for to much from the antibody test. The reason scientists have been holding back from using it, is that it produces a lot of false positives, and probably, but not for certain, some false negatives too.

    Do you know how they can tell that a positive antibody test result is false, given that we are told that anyone can have had COVID-19 without any symptoms?
    False negatives I can understand - if someone has tested positive while they had it and then the antibody test says no, one or the other must be false.
    I'm not disputing your point, just curious.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    No I don't know, but the scientists do seem to, as it is quoted in several papers.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Thanks anyway @punkdoc . I wonder if it's from lab tests rather than from trials on people.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I suppose it's when a test says positive,  but then the person gets it after that @JennyJ
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