I think if that were a problem, COVID-19 wouldn’t be a problem?
ETA or maybe not, for all I know there’s tons of scope for discrepancy between the antibody test for [relevant pathogen] and those antibodies’ effectiveness against similar, but distinct pathogens.
You forgot the pharmaceutical companies
I don’t know but the positive / negative time difference seems to create a weird waiting limbo.
You’ve said things before that suggest $60 isn’t much to you. If it’s really weighing on you, send them a polite email asking for a credit note redeemable after shit gets normal again or something.
Just make tortillas. It’s easier and a lot faster.
I don’t agree. You can’t misrepresent what you’re selling, regardless of circumstances, unless you’re a scumbag. Fuck them.
Do you mean that if the coronavirus antibodies from non-covid-19 coronaviruses are reactive then it is possible that they would confer protection to covid-19? It could be. But I think that I recall reading that coronavirus antibodies serum half life is relatively short, on the order of months or years. Which, if so, there probably aren’t a ton of people walking around with high levels of non covid-19 coronavirus antibodies walking around. But if, say, 10% of people would test positive for a serum coronavirus test but only a tiny fraction have had covid-19, that would really confuse things to the extent that the serum test would be near-useless for epidemiological studies.
I thought like 25% of common cold cases were coronaviruses. Based on that, I’d have thought antibodies for Generic Coronavirus would be ten-a-penny. Is that not the whole deal with ‘novel coronavirus’? But I have no idea what I’m talking about.
So who are the Villagers blaming? I hear that DeSantis is getting blamed, but it doesn’t sound like it is by the olds that will get hit.
This coronavirus doesn’t normally circulate in human populations and it’s different enough from the one that do that our immune systems just don’t recognize it.
I don’t call anyone a scumbag who pulls some petty shit like that from hunger. Maybe they’re laughing all the way to the bank, in which case, sure, fuck them. But maybe not.
I also have no idea what I’m talking about so we should probably stop. But one last thing, one hypothesis I’ve heard for why kids aren’t getting the COVID too bad is that they are constantly getting colds and thus are more likely to have recently gotten and recovered from a coronavirus.
So is it likely that an antibody test for COVID would spit out false positives? I suppose it comes down to the fine-tunedness of antibody tests. Any insight?
Shocking developments in The Villages. Who knew this could happen?
That seems thin to me. Surely a big part of the reason kids are constantly getting colds is that they haven’t yet developed antibodies against them. I know they expire and all, but all that tells me is that parents must catch colds from their kids. So that theory should predict increased resistance against COVID from people who have kids — presumably to a lesser extent, but maybe discernable? We probably just don’t have the data to determine that yet, though.
Then blow smoke in their faces.
Im not well versed in this, but I would expect antibody tests to be extremely accurate. They’re basically designed by nature to lock on to very specific targets.
On Monday, the state opened a drive-though testing center in The Villages.
lol America, of course basketball players and rich-ass retirement communities get immediate COVID testing.
