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A comment on SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in healthy blood donors during Covid-19 Milan outbreak.

Re:SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in healthy blood donors during ... by jansan on Thursday May 21, 2020 @07:21AM (#23257073)
The whole antibody testing looks totally unreliable to me. My wife was tested COVID-19 positive about 4 weeks ago. So was her boss at a different test location, so I assume the test was correct. Also she was ill with the typical symptoms. Meanwhile she has recovered and three days ago she had and antibody test and the result was negative, not even close to the threshold.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in healthy blood donors during ... by noodlesUK on Thursday May 21, 2020 @07:47AM (#23257268)
Do you happen to know which antibody test Was used? There are a number of different ones with very different specifications.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in healthy blood donors during ... by jansan on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:31AM (#23257609)
I was a test against IgG antibodies. The report does not mention the manufacturer of the test.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in healthy blood donors during ... by krona on Thursday May 21, 2020 @07:27AM (#23257134)
You concluded that on a sample size of one?
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in healthy blood donors during ... by jansan on Thursday May 21, 2020 @07:32AM (#23257166)
It's anecdotal, but if you follow https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/ there are tons of similar anecdotes. In a large enough number anecdotes make a statistic.

Also, I claim that there was not even time to test the reliability of the serological tests an actual patients. So, anecdotes may be all data we have.

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