Are you worried yet.

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Sam McGoo

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I've just received an email to say I am eligible to donate plasma for Covid sufferers, however, they don't know if there is an anti body testing operation going on in my area!

WTF?

What a shambles!

So have you been tested for antibodies ? And you have already had C19?
 

RSM Masser

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I have just had an antibody test, they can detect the antibodies for up to 12 months
My wife was convinced we all had it around new year - it certainly knocked me for six and laid me up in bed for a few days
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Negative
 

philw696

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So the lowest figure for a Tuesday since the lockdown started, you mean?



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Wouldn't say it was a low figure Chris that's quite a lot and everything going back to normal.
We have been told now we're not going to be tested due to lack of facilities to get it done quickly but compulsory face masks from 1/8/20 here in France.
That will be fun for the Le Man's lot.
 

CatmanV2

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Wouldn't say it was a low figure Chris that's quite a lot and everything going back to normal.

Ummm, I didn't say it was a low figure. I said it was the lowest figure (of COVID19 reported deaths) on a Tuesday....

However grabbing some random numbers from the ONS I see that in May, just because that's a file I have, the average weekly deaths in the UK (over the last 5 years, so not including 2020) is 9900 or
1414 per day.

Or put it another way: 9 times as many people are dying from other stuff in the UK every day than they are of COVID

According to data here the single biggest cause of death up until 2018 was Heart disease:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...causesofdeath/datasets/leadingcausesofdeathuk
40k deaths per year
110 per day

Next highest score is Alzheimer's, sadly

Makes me wonder what might have been achieved if we'd focussed on preventing heart disease for 20 years or so.

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philw696

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Totally agree surely now is a good time to focus on health care and issues that should have been sorted along time ago.
 

Sam McGoo

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I have just had an antibody test, they can detect the antibodies for up to 12 months
My wife was convinced we all had it around new year - it certainly knocked me for six and laid me up in bed for a few days
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Negative

What test did you use? Did you get one privately?
Did you do it yourself or was it done by a health professional?

I'm just very interested in whether they are any good as I'd like a test, but want a reliable one.
I'm considered high risk, so life has been very restricted throughout all this, but if I have already had it, I could relax my restrictions and get back to work ASAP.
 

Wattie

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What test did you use? Did you get one privately?
Did you do it yourself or was it done by a health professional?

I'm just very interested in whether they are any good as I'd like a test, but want a reliable one.
I'm considered high risk, so life has been very restricted throughout all this, but if I have already had it, I could relax my restrictions and get back to work ASAP.
Sam if you’re high risk I would continue to keep doing as you are for the foreseeable future. Prevention is better than cure.
 

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So have you been tested for antibodies ? And you have already had C19?

Not yet. Apparently I will be contacted to get an antibody test and if it is positive (to confirm my feeling that I've had Covid-19) then I will be asked to donate Plasma for it's treatment.

Apparently the antibodies in males over 40 are way higher than those of a female in her 20's for example.
Males carry more for some reason, which would also explain why 75% of deaths are men (male privilege eh?).
 

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I have just had an antibody test, they can detect the antibodies for up to 12 months
My wife was convinced we all had it around new year - it certainly knocked me for six and laid me up in bed for a few days
Result

Negative

The NHS recon the online antibody tests are not at all accurate, which is why they recommend not buying them.

With regards to what you had around New Year, according to my doctor, there was a nasty flu like virus going around between November and January which make a lot of people think they had CV19.

I had that bug (when I was at Centre Parcs of all places), but compared to what I had in March I'd take the Centre Parcs bug all day every day.
The Centre Parcs bug (as I'll call it) was done and dusted with antibiotics in a few days.

What I think was CV19 took me over 3 weeks to clear, and even now I have a lot of the after effects confirmed CV19 patients are displaying (breathlessness, headaches, aching muscles etc etc etc).
 
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Myself and several others suffered flu like symptoms immediately before Christmas
We are all convinced now it was the virus. One lady nurse (not on the Covid wards) has recently been NHS tested and she has found she has no antibody to the virus. The episode at Christmas was probably flu!
 
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