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[Domestickat]

I was reading an article on blood testing and this is what i found.

Similar questions swirl around new antibody tests involving blood samples. Some versions have been described as finger-prick tests that can provide important information in minutes.

Antibody tests are most valuable as a way of seeing who has been infected in the recent past, who became immune to the disease and — if done on a wide scale — how widely an infection has spread in a community.

The antibody tests also will allow scientists to get a better understanding of how deadly coronavirus is to all people, because they will provide a better understanding of how many people were ever infected, ranging from those who never showed symptoms to those who became fatally ill. The results will also guide vaccine development.

the only way i can see this test is so the CDC can track the number of people testing positive for antibodies for the virus and so that if people test positive and feel sick they can go to their doctor and get retested for the virus and the doctor can note that the patient has antibodies for the virus and track this. they should change their idea of testing for the virus to testing for antobodies and also promote it to diabetics, they should be able to test their glucose and also test to see if they have antibodies to coronavirus. I should be the Ceo... lol

[rawman]

LOL! It is not like daily blood glucose monitoring. It's a one time self-administered test that half the population could probably screw-up! This is exactly one of the two or three underlying reasons the FDA has thus far ignored Home Testing as an accepted active virus test modality!

The risks associated with testing for an active virus are too great! FALSE NEGATIVES can literally be "killers"!

It might be possible to do a traditional antibody screen, via a Home Test kit, as the result would not be relied upon for immediate virus mitigation. The worst case would be falsely detecting the existence of antibodies, suggesting the subject would have some level of immunity, which in fact would not be the case.

Of course all of this suggests that it might prudent to just get tests done by those who know what they are doing!