Antibody Test

[Rottentofu]

Has anyone gotten the antibody test? How accurate is the test and how far back can the test detect? My wife and I got really sick around Sep/Oct 2019. We thought it was a really bad flu. (We rarely get that sick before) A month or two later, COVID hit the news. I am kind of curious to see if my body has COVID antibody. Is it worth getting the test?

[spitter3]

Has anyone gotten the antibody test? How accurate is the test and how far back can the test detect? My wife and I got really sick around Sep/Oct 2019. We thought it was a really bad flu. (We rarely get that sick before) A month or two later, COVID hit the news. I am kind of curious to see if my body has COVID antibody. Is it worth getting the test?

American Red Cross does the test when you donate blood.

[anthonyca]

Labcorp.

[stix213]

Antibodies last months not years. That's one reason the so called vaccines border on worthless. What you really want is to test for memory T cells, which last decades.

https://www.t-detect.com/purchase/

[neduban]

here are my results after 6 months getting the Covid no VAX

SARS-COV-2 IGG INDEX 2.35 (index_val)
<1.00 (index_val) H
SARS-COV-2 IGG QUAL Reactive
Non Reactive A
Reactive results indicate that antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 spike protein were
detected, potentially indicating prior COVID-19 vaccination or exposures to
COVID-19, or both.

[OlderThanDirt]

[XDJYo]

Antibodies last months not years. That's one reason the so called vaccines border on worthless. What you really want is to test for memory T cells, which last decades.

https://www.t-detect.com/purchase/

Nice! Thanks for this link. We may wind up doing this test just to see what our current 'status' is regarding this. My wife has a stellar immune system and may have been asymptomatic and I was feeling 'something' last month, but definitely not ER level severe. Had chills, sweats, nausea and a dry cough but never ran a fever and O2 was 98% consistently.

[Rottentofu]

Antibodies last months not years. That's one reason the so called vaccines border on worthless. What you really want is to test for memory T cells, which last decades.

https://www.t-detect.com/purchase/

Understood. Thank you for the info.

[five.five-six]

Can they tell the difference between injections and previous infections?

[nicky c]

Can they tell the difference between injections and previous infections?

Allegedly, yes. There is a seroprevalence study completed in May '21 derived from Red Cross donors representing 74% of US population. Suggested that 20% of pop has antibodies consistent with natural infection, with a further 63% attributed to vaccine stimulated for a total seroprevalence of 83%.

180 million Americans fully vaccinated per the CDC.

Yet we had more deaths in Aug '21 than Aug '20. Something stinks.

[Palmaris]

I did antibodies twice-3 months after recovery and 6 months after recovery. 3 months I had index IgG 9.82 (1.4<n<10 is range) and after 6 months it was 8.48. My wife had 4.13 and 2.27 accordingly. I do did at Exer Urgent Care. They use Abbott qualitative detection of igG test.

[Palmaris]

Antibodies last months not years. That's one reason the so called vaccines border on worthless. What you really want is to test for memory T cells, which last decades.

https://www.t-detect.com/purchase/

Antibodies so far last way more then months. They fade off to low level, but still present. T Cell will boost them as needed. That is I read so far.

[Dan_Eastvale]

Antibodies so far last way more then months. They fade off to low level, but still present. T Cell will boost them as needed. That is I read so far.

Yet they want you to get a second shot and are pushing a booster after 6 months.

to be called fully vaccinated

[bohoki]

first thing is they ask if you have had covid or are vaccinated then they make sure the results allign

[Palmaris]

Yet they want you to get a second shot and are pushing a booster after 6 months.

to be called fully vaccinated

I am not artificially vaccinated, just by nature