NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infections in U.S.

Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by didibus on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @06:35PM (#27522482)

I think you can take an antibody test, if you had Covid (and assuming you didn't get the Covid vaccine or real Covid later), you should show signs of antibodies.

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Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by mardifoufs on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @06:49PM (#27522612)

Yes but even assuming he tests positive for antibodies , it is way more likely that it would be due to a more recent but completely asymptomatic infection rather than due to a very very early infection when the only few cases we know weren't even in the same region.

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Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by maxerickson on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @07:48PM (#27523104)

Yeah. Also, I've heard multiple anecdotes of people who had some nasty infection that winter and did get an antibody test that came back negative. Something else was going around.

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Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by acdha on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @10:15PM (#27524135)

Influenza was bad. My father in law had a bad case in February 2020, lab verified, and gave it to us. Even with the flu vaccine it was notably worse than anything we had with a kid in daycare.

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Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by didibus on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:40PM (#27524643)

True, but at least if they test negative they know for sure it was something else.

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