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Has ANYONE on here had a positive antibody test?

55 replies

Saladmakesmesad · 18/05/2020 23:21

I know a few people have ordered and taken the antibody tests now but I've not heard of a single positive result. Anyone?!

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findingschools4myboys · 18/05/2020 23:49

Yes I have. As has my husband and my youngest son. My older sons who also had symptoms tested negative. I think false negatives.

maxbabi · 19/05/2020 00:24

Where do you get them from and are they reliable?

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Saladmakesmesad · 19/05/2020 12:35

At least that's one then! I was wondering if they were all duds haha.

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mummy203 · 23/05/2020 23:08

I’ve just had my test back from treated.com I don’t have anti bodies 😢 I’m high risk with underlying health conditions, I can’t distance at work, I had symptoms in early March but unfortunately I didn’t have it. Fingers crossed for a vaccine

BanburyBun · 23/05/2020 23:09

Yes I have. Was unwell at the end of March and did the antibody test this week out of curiosity.

Onceuponatimethen · 23/05/2020 23:12

Did you get them privately?

bombaychef · 23/05/2020 23:22

Are they reliable?

DamnYankee · 23/05/2020 23:47

The test must be reliable and valid.
Reliability is about the consistency of a measure, and validity is about the accuracy of a measure.
So they are neither at this point.

I am very hopeful about a vaccine: www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/22/860638799/fauci-voices-cautious-optimism-about-moderna-vaccine-calling-trial-quite-promisi

In the US. I can assure you that Dr. Fauci has been extremely conservative in his estimations and predictions - dour at times, really, so this seems very big!

I realize that even were a vaccine developed in August, it's going to be tricky to allocate it. Heath care workers would be first obviously. I hope national governments are drafting plans now.

mummykauli7 · 30/05/2020 21:51

Hi. I work at a pharmacy in Sidcup, we started doing antibody tests last week and so far the results have been 50/50.

PammieDooveOrangeJoof · 30/05/2020 22:12

Can I ask what pharmacy? Can anyone go and get one as I’m near Sidcup.

AlandAnna · 30/05/2020 22:22

Husband was positive,
I was negative. We share a bed!

Mustbetimeforachange · 30/05/2020 22:24

The CDC have just said that up to 50% of the quick tests (the ones that look like a pregnancy test!) produce up to 50% false negatives. The proper lab ones are better.

Wowzel · 30/05/2020 22:25

I have had positive antibody tests - both on the point of care test as part of a clinical trial, as well as on the normal blood antibody test.

I also had two positive swabs a couple of months ago

Dannn · 30/05/2020 22:37

I have, I am an ICU nurse and have been looking after COVID patients. I got the test through work as part of a clinical trial.

I didn’t have any symptoms, but both unsurprised and slightly relieved to have had it.

endofacentury · 30/05/2020 22:53

I did the Superdrug one this week and it was negative. Was disappointed as I was very ill in Feb and am now caring for my mum who is terminally ill. It was £69

Billi77 · 30/05/2020 23:55

I tested positive at a private testing centre in London. Had mild flu-like symptoms in March and probably caught off partner who also tested positive . Within our combined social and family groups, quite a few people tested positive. Others with identical or worse symptoms tested negative. I suspect there are a lot of false negatives

FrodoTheDodo · 31/05/2020 07:19

I know of 2. Both frontline NHS who had the tests at work. Neither had had symptoms.

Bool · 31/05/2020 08:21

My DH has a positive test. He was properly ill with it. I was with him all the time and had a mild cough for 2 months (unusual for me) and tested negative. These were antibody tests.

TerrapinStation · 31/05/2020 08:27

@AlandAnna

Husband was positive, I was negative. We share a bed!
Without presuming anything about Kate Garraway's marriage her husband has been critically ill for weeks while she and her children are fine, there's not a 100% transmission. On all the other threads I've read about tests there are many many posts reporting the same.

Are you having the tests out of curiosity, I may have missed it but I thought it wasn't known if there is immunity once you've had it.

Grobagsforever · 31/05/2020 08:31

My school friends did, she was sick in March

Camomila · 31/05/2020 08:53

My friends both got antibody tests on the nhs (hospital doctor couple). One had coronavirus in march, her partner assumed she'd been asymptomatic, but she tested negative so thinks she maybe didn't catch it at all.

rachyconks · 31/05/2020 09:07

My BIL did. He had it at the beginning of lockdown. Fairly mild symptoms though.

Bool · 31/05/2020 09:24

@TerrapinStation you are right they haven’t definitively proven immunity if you have antibodies so the WHO are still hedging their bets. But all contextual evidence would suggest that if you have antibodies you will have a degree of immunity for an unknown length of time. If that weren’t the case I doubt a vaccine would ever work. So my DH is feeling safer.

Bool · 31/05/2020 09:25

On Kate Garraway - she met Prince Charles at some event just before lockdown. Prince Charles got ill with Covid shortly after. She may have passed it to her husband.

TerrapinStation · 31/05/2020 10:09

@Bool

On Kate Garraway - she met Prince Charles at some event just before lockdown. Prince Charles got ill with Covid shortly after. She may have passed it to her husband.
Are you suggesting she had closer contact with Prince Charles than Camilla does Grin

They're another example of partners with different reactions.