https://tylerpaper.com/covid-19/christus-health-begins-testing-to-determine-if-people-had-covid-19-have-antibodies-to-fight/article_2f5afd06-7ea8-11ea-a992-93bbed7e3c97.html

Looks like these tests are becoming more and more available. They are still doing swabs to confirm symptomatic patients, but they plan to finger stick patients to test for antibodies.

They will be starting by testing their hospital workers.

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The "COVID-19 IgG/IgM Rapid Diagnostic Test Kit" was unveiled by Christus Health on Tuesday. The IgM shows the antibody if you are infected by coronavirus and contagious while the IgG shows if you had the virus and you are recovered.

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Has not yet been FDA-approved but they are confident it will be shortly. I just hope it is accurate. More concerned about false positives with this one.

A Chinese test. Oh boy.

Same test (or type of test) the UK ordered millions of weeks ago. But hopefully they are readily available to everyone in weeks.

That's what I'm worried about. Turns out the UK found them to be fairly worthless due to accuracy issues.

bmart97 said:

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lobopride said:

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If I test negative can I just volunteer to get the virus so I can get my life back? Somewhat sarcasm.

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Me too, less sarcasm.

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Me three, no sarcasm.

I think this is fundamentally the same crap Chinese test that gave a doctor two positives and two negatives after trying it four times.

See this thread.