How Long Before We Get Instant CV Tests?

Abbott is releasing them this week.

You’ll have to buy them through Kushner’s health insurance company, which means signing up for at least their cheapest plan, which will only cost 1k per month with a 1 million dollar deductible and a hundred dollar copay and no prescription or emergency coverage. You’ll have to pre-pay for this insurance for 5 or 10 years, with a $99 discount on the 10 year subscription. The Results In An Hour tests will be an add-on that only costs 3k per test. The option to sign up for this insurance will roll out in waves, ala the Kevin Bacon Game, starting with 6 people Jared knows and adding an additional six people every month, beginning in May.

Expected to take 2 years.

R3 complete lie. UK ordered millions of antibody tests last week.

2021 at the very earliest.

R1 already answered this for you. But here's a link that explains it.

I just heard scarf lady repeat what she’s said before about the futility of getting tested. I’ve also heard others say something similar, that testing is futile because a neg test would be obsolete even a day later, and therefore a waste of a test. While that is true, it completely misses the entire point. A positive result would free me incredibly. If I was positive, and had cleared the virus from my system so that I was now immune and not contagious:

I could stop obsessively washing my hands and sanitizing my house.

I could go to the market, or anywhere, without gloves.

I could eat anywhere without fear.

I could tour open houses and maybe buy a new place, or a new car.

I could stop wiping the mail down when received.

I could visit my friends and family, without fearing of spreading the virus or dying from it.

I could go back to work.

I could go on vacation.

I could comfort a sick loved one in person, whereas no one can otherwise do so, now.

I could resume a semblance of a normal life, instead of living in limbo.

I could rehire my housekeeper, my Rolfer, and my hair stylist.

I could get my life back.

It really annoys me when scarf lady talks around this disingenuously, instead of addressing it directly, and it makes me think she isn’t at all trustworthy, and is deliberately hiding something important from me.

[quote] A positive result would free me incredibly. If I was positive, and had cleared the virus from my system so that I was now immune and not contagious:

That's not true. You can get it again. And the disease has mutated 8 times already

[quote] it completely misses the entire point. A positive result would free me incredibly

And you're missing the point. 1. You don't know what the fuck you are talking about. 2. Not everything is about you

You've said you want to be positive for the Coronavirus, trust me, most of us want you to be positive for the virus too

R8, it’s not settled as to whether a person can get sick from the same virus a second time. There was speculation that the few people that seem to have had multiple contractions may have actually only had a single infection that had not yet resolved, due to faulty testing or something else. We do indeed need more reliable info on this. Dr. Fachi thinks it inconceivable that a person who has recovered from the virus can be reinfected.

R9, your reading comprehension sucks. Your answer is almost too stupid to respond to, but I will try. I never wrote that “I want to be positive”, I wrote that I want to know my status. A test result does not make you positive or negative, as you seem to be suggesting. A test result tells me information about myself that would be useful for to me to know. You have to be truly stupid to think that a person why has recovered from the virus and who has become antige- negative and therefore cannot become sick, nor transmit the disease, should nonetheless behave as though both were still possible.

As for not everything being about me, I never claimed that it was. Oh, how I hate talking with people who are too stupid to understand what they are so eager to criticize. And that, is not about me, at all.

There are two types of tests. One that would test for your being (currently) positive and another test that would show if you have antibodies indicating that you'd had it in the past.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, again says that you can’t catch the disease twice. At least, not in the short term. At least that is good news.

[quote]If I was positive, and had cleared the virus from my system so that I was now immune and not contagious

A test for the infection would not tell you if you had had the virus. It would only tell you if you currently have the virus. You would want an antibody test and you're not getting one while the nation is trying to get their hands on just the diagnostic tests. Scarf lady is right. Testing everyone right now is a waste. Assume you and everyone around you has it and act accordingly. That's the only way to do it right now.

Well, we know for sure the West is not getting any tests if Trump has anything to do with it.

R14, sure they will. All the empty Repug states will get whatever they want. I really want to know what Florida has gotten from the Feds so far. Illinois got lied to and was sent only surgical masks instead of the N95s they had been told were being sent. Those fuckers.

[quote] R13: A test for the infection would not tell you if you had had the virus. It would only tell you if you currently have the virus. You would want an antibody test and you're not getting one while the nation is trying to get their hands on just the diagnostic tests. Scarf lady is right. Testing everyone right now is a waste. Assume you and everyone around you has it and act accordingly. That's the only way to do it right now.

Exactly, they’ve screwed-up by not having the antibody/antigen text widely available. If they had those tests ready, it wouldn’t be a waste for the reasons listed in R7. I think a guy also just articulated this on MSNBC’s 10 pm special just now, but wasn’t paying close attention.

And I think you meant, “Assume [bold] you don’t have it [/bold] and everyone around you has it and act accordingly.”

we do not understand what kind of immunity, how long, and all of that. they keep making "hopefully" statements without concrete knowledge. and if you are negative for having it, and having had it, you still have to make sure you don't get it

i wouldn't want to test it out myself, considering heart failure and kidney failure and all of that is a possible result. does anyone?

so, assume everyone has it and act accordingly.

tests are going to be reserved for the people who REALLY DO need to know: first responders.

It's possible to become infected with two strains of many diseases - HIV is a notable example.

[quote]And I think you meant, “Assume you don’t have it and everyone around you has it and act accordingly.”

No, I meant to assume that you and everyone HAS it. That way you won't walk around infecting other people.

What's the failure rate of the test? 3%? Which means there are going to be people who test negative out there infecting others. As well as people who test positive who are quarantined and/or medicated for nothing.

[quote]Testing everyone right now is a waste.

Wrong, if I test positive but show no symptoms, I go into quarantine for 14 days then I no longer have to worry and can get on with life.

[quote]Testing everyone right now is a waste.

Wrong, if I test positive but show no symptoms, I go into quarantine for 14 days then I no longer have to worry and can get on with life.

^ could you repeat that?

R7, Pierre my dearest, you have followed the freakout thread enough to know this thing can absolutely reinfect and kill you via cytokine storm. That's how those young Chinese doctors died. Plus, at your tender age, it might even kill you.

[quote] Exactly, they’ve screwed-up by not having the antibody/antigen text widely available. If they had those tests ready, it wouldn’t be a waste for the reasons listed in [R7].

An antigen test was just invented a week ago. But you feel they should have had a stockpile of these tests that didn't exist. Okay

My husband’s friend can get a bunch of “antibody” tests where you use a couple of drops of blood from a pinprick and it’ll tell you immediately if you have the antibodies. Supposedly as simple as a home pregnancy test. We suspect we’ve been exposed and recovered, and it would be a relief to know for sure.

But I am skeptical that the tests are accurate. I know of many who have been offered tests and masks by their Chinese vendors who they work with. My SIL works with a supplier who makes handbags for her company. Now they can sell her masks and test kits. ??? And I’M the asshole who’s raining on their parade.

Too good to be true, IMO.

Scarf lady is an idiot. Fauci is a useful idiot.

Only pay attention to the Koreans. What they do, do.

Yes, R24, But I believe and hope one eventually gets immunity, I have heard this from Dr. Fauchi.