Should The Government Be Concentrating On Covid Anti-Body Testing?

AuntPollyGrey | 10:11 Tue 28th Apr 2020 | Body & Soul

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Would it be more useful to know who had recovered from the virus without any hospitalisation, of even without symptoms rather than who has got it now?.

Someone presenting for a routine test because they are a Key worker could test negative, and then catch it in a couple of days time. What is the point of that?

At least if you know you have had it you may be immune......or is that the problem? The scientists have no idea if you can catch the virus again once you have had it?

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In an ideal world, you would think that we would all love to know who has recovered from the virus at home or has been asymptomatic either during home confinement or work. Knowing that x number of people at any given time out the population as a whole are free of the pathogen is of limited value to the government or their advisers. Furthermore, such figures could...

18:25 Tue 28th Apr 2020

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I suppose keeping the R number below zero would mean the uninfected could go round curing the infected just by touch.

That would be a pretty satisfactory outcome, and I'm sorry it turned out to be a typo.

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