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Is it just my experience or have most people had COVID19?
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Is it just my experience or have most people had COVID19?


May 13, 2020, 9:15 AM

I'd say 80% of our office has had it, and 85% of our customers based on their sound anecdotal history of this weird sickness they had over Christmas break, early Feb, etc.

I may be working in the safest office in America.

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Go get an antibody test....


May 13, 2020, 9:20 AM

I thought the exact same.

My FIL was ill during Christmas (Fever, then cough for a month) and then I got sick, my wife, then my son, and my BIL and his wife also got it. In the matter of two weeks after Christmas. All of us had a fever, then a horrible cough for weeks.

My FIL, BIL and myself got the anti-body test. All negative.

Our theory got crushed. Yours might too.

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Well ####. That's what I was banking on***


May 13, 2020, 9:22 AM



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I like your funny words magic man


Odds are way higher it was the flu. Was bad last year.***


May 13, 2020, 9:24 AM [ in reply to Go get an antibody test.... ]



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Negative for flu.***


May 13, 2020, 9:46 AM



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SIL was the same. Doctors couldn't pinpoint what it was


May 13, 2020, 9:26 AM [ in reply to Go get an antibody test.... ]

kept saying bronchitis with other stuff, stayed around for 2-3 weeks, got antibody test and it was negative. The doctors told her most were negative but there are occasional people that get the test as a requirement to return to work and get a positive when they were 100% sure they haven't been sick at all. Weird virus.

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Most antibody tests are not accurate. Wild west with those.


May 13, 2020, 9:31 AM

Even the (rapid) flu test is not very accurate. It is very accurate if you test positive, but has over a 15% false negative rate, meaning if you test negative, there's a 15% or more chance you still have the flu.

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My primary care said if we tested negative, it was very


May 13, 2020, 9:45 AM

accurate. If we tested positive, be aware that it might be picking up common cold anti-bodies or something else.

YMMV.

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I was being phuseeshus.


May 13, 2020, 9:28 AM [ in reply to Go get an antibody test.... ]

And basically saying that I work with dumbarsess. Bless them.

But... I have heard that the current antibody test isn't very accurate unless you are tested within 2 or 3 weeks of having COVID-19. So some people who had symptoms in January may test negative even if they had a mild version.

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Is there a test or vaccine for that?!?***


May 13, 2020, 9:30 AM



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There's really only one single fact we know about the virus


May 13, 2020, 9:21 AM

...that being that it's transmitted by a bite from the infected and if you hack off the limb in time, you can prevent catching it.

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donate blood to the Blood Connection


May 13, 2020, 9:24 AM

and they will run an antibody test for free!

https://thebloodconnection.org/


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