Sharky
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My results came back NEGATIVE for COVID-19 Immune Response (SARS-CoV-2 AB IGG).
Worth knowing I suppose. I dont know that I would do anything different if it came back positive.
Rate of infection 50 times higher?
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My results came back NEGATIVE for COVID-19 Immune Response (SARS-CoV-2 AB IGG).
Worth knowing I suppose. I dont know that I would do anything different if it came back positive.
GAJ
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OK, so more than likely those of us who had that nasty "cold" in February just had a nasty cold after all.
Thanks.
GAJ
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Abacinator
Unholy Blasphemies
Anybody gotten antibody testing from Quest?
Sharky
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I did. $120
Dr_SLO
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Absolutely worth knowing and not surprising given recent seroprevalence data from Spain: Antibody study shows just 5% of Spaniards have contracted the coronavirus. Spain is currently the country with the second largest number of cases; 274,367. With 70,000 random participants, this is the biggest study to date outside of China. Interestingly, it puts the fatality rate at about 1%, which is consistent with data from China.
These data look to be a press release from Spain's Carlos III public health institute rather than a peer reviewed manuscript. Hopefully the published data will follow shortly so that the methods can be scrutinized.
Yakoo752
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Yakoo752
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Really depends on where you live.
In some states, it’s absolutely true. You message the local health agency and they send you a location and a time. 0 cost. Anyone
Abacinator
Unholy Blasphemies
How was the experience?
Climber
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I read a story, this morning, about LA's free tests are being offered to anybody who wants to take it, even multiple times.
They're paying $137 per test and are capable of doing 10k tests a day, IIRC.
That's a boatload of money!
WoodsChick
I Don't Do GPS
My test story...
I'm a kidney donor for my sister. I had my last appointment scheduled for Friday May 8th at UCSF to wrap up some loose ends and do a final echocardiogram stress test. On Sunday night May 3rd I got a sore throat. Monday morning found me coughing, headache, achy shoulders and neck, zero energy, and slightly elevated temperature. Tuesday was more of the same except goosebumps on my arms off and on all day. I wouldn't have even thought twice about it if it hadn't been for the upcoming visit to UCSF. Called my transplant coordinator to see if she thought I should keep the appointment or not, and she suggested I call UCSF's Covid-19 hotline. Good lord a'mighty...that opened up a can of worms. I was on the phone alllll day.
First the Covid lady called me, then the triage nurse, then the triage nurse again, then the scheduler, then the scheduler again to help me download Zoom so I could do a video appointment with a doctor, the the scheduler to give me my appointment, then the appointment with the doctor, then the triage nurse again. I think that's it...I might've missed someone in there. I'm guessing UCSF was so on top of it because live kidney donors are not exactly a dime-a-dozen and they did say I was the healthiest 57-year-old woman they'd ever had come through their program
teeth) so I must be a decent asset for them. Anyway, the doctor said I definitely needed a test. Then came the whole "Are you a UCSF patient or not?" Well, technically no, but I have racked up $100k worth of doctor bills there getting accepted into their live kidney donor program. I just wanted to walk 2 blocks to Kaiser. Turns out my video doctor personally knows my PCP at Kaiser so she shot her an email. More back and forth ensued. You'd think it would've been a lot easier to get referred for a test! Anyway, I did the test 2 days ago...a throat culture and 2 (two!) 10' poles they euphemistically refer to "swabs" scraping the back of my skull through each nostril. Super unfun but it's over pretty quick with no lasting effects. Got the results today. Negative (as I suspected all along) but they said that doesn't mean I don't have it...WTF?
Anyway, i will keep doing what I'm doing (super careful, masks, limiting going out, ever-present little spray bottle of alcohol, fiendish hand-washing, etc.) and hope like hell I make it through this crap without damaging my kidneys. That's my main goal.
bikewanker
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Good on you for the kidney donation!:thumbup And the good health. I know nothing about the thought process but a good friend donated hers and I’ve managed a few years with one, seemingly without issues.My test story...
I'm a kidney donor for my sister. I had my last appointment scheduled for Friday May 8th at UCSF to wrap up some loose ends and do a final echocardiogram stress test. On Sunday night May 3rd I got a sore throat. Monday morning found me coughing, headache, achy shoulders and neck, zero energy, and slightly elevated temperature. Tuesday was more of the same except goosebumps on my arms off and on all day. I wouldn't have even thought twice about it if it hadn't been for the upcoming visit to UCSF. Called my transplant coordinator to see if she thought I should keep the appointment or not, and she suggested I call UCSF's Covid-19 hotline. Good lord a'mighty...that opened up a can of worms. I was on the phone alllll day.
First the Covid lady called me, then the triage nurse, then the triage nurse again, then the scheduler, then the scheduler again to help me download Zoom so I could do a video appointment with a doctor, the the scheduler to give me my appointment, then the appointment with the doctor, then the triage nurse again. I think that's it...I might've missed someone in there. I'm guessing UCSF was so on top of it because live kidney donors are not exactly a dime-a-dozen and they did say I was the healthiest 57-year-old woman they'd ever had come through their program
Anyway, the doctor said I definitely needed a test. Then came the whole "Are you a UCSF patient or not?" Well, technically no, but I have racked up $100k worth of doctor bills there getting accepted into their live kidney donor program. I just wanted to walk 2 blocks to Kaiser. Turns out my video doctor personally knows my PCP at Kaiser so she shot her an email. More back and forth ensued. You'd think it would've been a lot easier to get referred for a test! Anyway, I did the test 2 days ago...a throat culture and 2 (two!) 10' poles they euphemistically refer to "swabs" scraping the back of my skull through each nostril. Super unfun but it's over pretty quick with no lasting effects. Got the results today. Negative (as I suspected all along) but they said that doesn't mean I don't have it...WTF?
Anyway, i will keep doing what I'm doing (super careful, masks, limiting going out, ever-present little spray bottle of alcohol, fiendish hand-washing, etc.) and hope like hell I make it through this crap without damaging my kidneys. That's my main goal.
I want to credit your good health to motorcycles.:ride
GAJ
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:hail:applause
WoodsChick
I Don't Do GPS
Other than all the broken bones, head injuries and soft tissue damage I'd have to agree with you! :laughing Good mental health, anyway. I have no qualms about going forward with only 1 kidney. I just can't be out throwing myself into the ground with great force as I don't want to injure the remaining one I've got, and I sure as hell don't want any lasting damage from the `rona! Although I've got a place at the head of the line should I ever need a new one so that's good :thumbup It's totally none of my business so please don't feel you like you have to answer me, but I'm curious as to why you only have one?
Thanks. I'm the youngest of 5 girls, so for me there's always been 5 of us. Both our parents are gone now. The thought of there only being 4 literally brings me to my knees every time I let that thought creep into my consciousness. I'm the youngest, healthiest, and the only one that remained child-free so makes perfect sense to me.
All the people spouting crap about Covid-19 killing only those with underlying conditions that were on death's doorstep anyway...well, listen up: She would look just like one of these people if reduced to a statistic. In reality she's had this PKD for many years and yet has remained healthy in spite of it. She contracted a lung infection a few years ago which she beat in order to be on the transplant list. She is active and vital and an award-winning gardener, an outstanding chef and baker, she got most of our dad's guitar-playing, pool-shooting and song-writing talent, she's a generous and loving sister, aunt, mother and grandmother. She will live a long and productive life with my kidney. If she got Covid-19 it would probably kill her in short order. This is why I'm so fucking careful every day.
Edit: She's also the only one brave enough to have ever gotten on the back of my motorcycle with me. She knew Big Red from serving her at the Station House and she asked me to take her out to the coast so she could sow some beautiful red wildflowers for her.
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Ditto..!!
Awesome of you. :applause
Hope all goes away quickly and you can do your very selfless thing.
Best to your sister too. :thumbup
Great pic :love
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WoodsChick
I Don't Do GPS
Thank you, budman :love