Replies to post #280263 on Amarin Corp Plc (AMRN)

[jessellivermore]

Hitchie...

OMG...You got tested three times before you came up positive..Very scarry..I have not had fevers, or lost taste, no chest pain but have productive sputum and coughing spells. I am going in for artery checks..Both lower extremities and carotids..Not sure how invasive these test are going to be,,I'm hoping its all Doppler..

The facility is like the rest they don't want you to show up if you have a positive C-19 test..

Seems like in Florida we are seeing another surge..But you can't be sure because the tests are so unreliable..C-19 normally produces the URI's that we call colds..and the rule with these epidemics is the vectors usually get weaker and weaker with passing time due to "transference"..they need a host, but as they pass through to the next host they get weaker...It's like these brainless forms of organic molecules have a fairly well thought out strategy..They understand if they kill all the hosts..Then they will all die..

There is so much much we don't know...

":>) JL

[sts66]

Glad you recovered and hope you don't have any long term lung problems, sounds like you had a near miss with needing hospitalization. Per

first retest was positive, second was "inconclusive", third was negative...went back to work and fourth test was positive (was told this is common as the body is shedding the virus and the test detecting the RNA of a dead virus). Fifth test negative

Sounds to me like the 2nd and 4th test were false negs because of problems with samples being stored in a viral transport solution - may dilute the amount of RNA - PCR testing is as good as it gets, only detects an active infection - the antibody ELISA tests are less accurate and they're the only kind I've ever seen come back with an equivocal (inconclusive) result when I get tested for viral infections.

Per ."All of the tests do miss a number of patients — anywhere from 5 to 30%,", that's not an accurate statement when viewed in context - those numbers include patients who may have been recently infected and don't have a high enough viral load to be detected, perhaps amplified by the problem with Abbott's potential dilutive solution. The other tests mentioned in your link were 95% or better in accuracy, except for the one that was 89% accurate - and it looks like all of them are rapid result tests where samples are input directly into the machine w/o being put into something like Abbott's transport solution. Makes me wonder how accurate the tests are at state operated drive-thru testing sites since the samples need to be transported to a testing facility, as opposed CVS's Minute Clinic drive-thru test, where testing is done on site within an hour.