Antibody Test

[larkja]

My wife and I are still wondering if we had the 'Rona in Feb. 2020. Would a test show antibodies 22 months after the illness?

I'm sure I had it Dec '19 and the rest of my family Feb '20. We had all the symptoms. I took z-pac and two rounds of steroids before it cleared. Took 6-8 weeks before I could walk a flight of stairs without breathing heavy and I am in very good condition.

I was also curious and took the blood test back in Nov '20 - no antibodies.

[SanDiego619]

My wife and I are still wondering if we had the 'Rona in Feb. 2020. Would a test show antibodies 22 months after the illness?

I got sick right around that same time and got a flu test, came up negative. I suspect it was ultra-super-dangerous covid. My symptoms: mild fever for a day, felt tired for a day or two more, back to 100% after three days. Seems like a typical covid case to me.

I never got any sort of antibody tests because I am not participating in covid.

[Libertarian777]

I took the test a few weeks ago and had antibodies, I've never been sick at all and I am not "vaccinated"

My buddy also took the test, had antibodies as well and he tested positive and is sick right now, he also is not "vaccinated"

He used the Binax Now home kit, take it all for what it's worth.

Whatever is going around right now will get you sick even if you have antibodies

The binax kit has a lot of false positives and false negatives.
They recommend you do it twice about 36 hours apart to lower the error rate

[Palmaris]

I got sick right around that same time and got a flu test, came up negative. I suspect it was ultra-super-dangerous covid. My symptoms: mild fever for a day, felt tired for a day or two more, back to 100% after three days. Seems like a typical covid case to me.

I never got any sort of antibody tests because I am not participating in covid.

[Palmaris]

The binax kit has a lot of false positives and false negatives.
They recommend you do it twice about 36 hours apart to lower the error rate

[mshill]

So you had enough viral load to demonstrate symptoms but not enough to trigger a positive test. Seems like you were walking around spreading the wu flu for a couple days. I keep hearing from all the political types that "testing and vaccines" are going to protect us, yet it appears that neither work sufficiently to do so.

[stonefly-2]

As I understand it the "antibody test" is valid about as long as any white
blood cells carrying the antibodies are still alive and their lifespan is fairly brief depending on type.

T cell antibodies being generated based on the bodies mechanism for responding to a known pathogen is a whole nother difference between being protected and not that leaves the "antibody test" of less value in this question.

[Sierra57]

I got sick right around that same time and got a flu test, came up negative. I suspect it was ultra-super-dangerous covid. My symptoms: mild fever for a day, felt tired for a day or two more, back to 100% after three days. Seems like a typical covid case to me.

I never got any sort of antibody tests because I am not participating in covid.

Whatever we had hit us pretty hard. My wife got sick first and the second day she had trouble breathing. I took her to the ER, and they ended up admitting her. I went to see her the next day, and when I got home, I felt crummy and fell asleep in the recliner. Woke up a couple hours later with 103 fever.

Wife was in the hospital 6 days, and when she got out, she was somewhat better. I drove down to get her with a 103 fever. I was still sick for several more days.

She lost her sense of taste and smell somewhat but not all of the way. She said everything smelled and tasted weird for months.

I didn't have that happen, but for a month or so every time I ate anything salty or had anything with citrus, the back of my tongue burned.

It wasn't the most sick I've ever been, but it wasn't fun. The worst I've ever been sick was 2001 when I had viral pneumonia with fevers over 105 for weeks. I lost over 30 lbs. on that one because I had zero appetite. It was weeks before I felt back to normal.. That was rough.

[Palmaris]

So you had enough viral load to demonstrate symptoms but not enough to trigger a positive test. Seems like you were walking around spreading the wu flu for a couple days. I keep hearing from all the political types that "testing and vaccines" are going to protect us, yet it appears that neither work sufficiently to do so.

[stonefly-2]

So you had enough viral load to demonstrate symptoms but not enough to trigger a positive test. Seems like you were walking around spreading the wu flu for a couple days. I keep hearing from all the political types that "testing and vaccines" are going to protect us, yet it appears that neither work sufficiently to do so.

Tests and symptoms aside the bigger question is on the viral load spread by people that just got "vaccinated".