08/08/2020
Internet is a great place for people to share their random thoughts and a way of gauging whether the some products and services are really good and effective.
The problem is that different people share their thoughts, including those who, for self-promotion, comment on things in which they do not understand anything.
In this case, I mean those who write stupid comments about the antibody testing for COVID-19.
There are a few ways antibody testing can be valuable:
1. To know your status: Research suggests that many who are infected COVID-19 show no or mild signs and symptoms of illness, so antibody tests could be useful in determining if you had it without knowing. Antibody test results could also help guide your doctor in making clinical decisions about your care.
2. To understand disease prevalence: Widespread antibody testing could give researchers a better understanding of how many people have been infected and how deadly the virus really is. Researchers can use this data to predict how COVID-19 might affect us in the future, including why some people are more severely impacted than others.
3. For convalescent plasma therapy: Convalescent plasma therapy uses the blood and antibodies from recovered COVID-19 patients to help treat others with COVID-19. Hackensack University Medical Center’s convalescent plasma therapy clinical trial, for example, uses the blood of COVID-19 survivors who have a very large presence of antibodies. Testing is needed to make this determination.
4. To help develop a vaccine: When a vaccine is developed, it imitates a certain infection, and once injected, it helps build up the body’s natural defense against the infection, creating immunity to the disease. Part of that defense includes the production of antibodies. Testing is needed to verify the body’s response to a potential vaccine.
Tests have to be more than 95% accurate to get FDA EUA.
That is why all the silly statements annoy me so much. Do not believe what is written by uneducated people, consult your doctor and you will avoid many absurdities.
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