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Mikey4

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  1. Yep.  That's the information they gave me.  I'm guessing folks like me and you who've had viral symptoms over the past couple months will start flocking to this test once word gets out.  If anything, it's more good information for our community to have on number of people infected, since they hadn't been doing testing on the front end for most of us who don't exhibit severe symptoms requiring hospitalization. 
    Good deal. They didn't tell me anything, and I felt like an idiot driving aimlessly around this empty parking lot.
  2. Antibody test scheduled for 5:30 this evening at the Burger Center near Sunset Valley.  Provider said results will be available in about 15 minutes.  I'll report back to Surly.   
    I'd love a positive to know that I've already had COVID, but I'm not getting my hopes up because (1) there's a decent rate of a false negative from what I've read, and (2) it's possible that I had some nasty flu-like virus that wasn't in fact coronavirus.  In any event, it's good knowledge to have, though I don't think it will affect my current behavior, i.e., I'll still limit my trips to the grocery store, won't start hanging out with friends, won't start fucking outside my current romantic interest, etc. 
    Not sure if they told you... You want to enter the stadium from the frontage road, and once you are in the parking lot, take an immediate right down a little road. You'll see the white tents set up. You drive to the left hand side of the tents and park in one of the spots marked with a sign. They also wanted me to text when I had arrived.
  3. I couldn't get through by phone, but scheduled a "video visit" for later today and will report if they are currently testing for antibodies.  In the online patient questionnaire, I did specify that my symptoms exhibited March 13-17, so someone should know that I'm not currently symptomatic. 
    It's definitely the antibody test. They got 5,000 test kits over the weekend and started testing Saturday I think. The clinic is surprisingly not that busy, so I think they're being flexible about who can get the antibody test. You can wait in your car and get results in about 15 minutes.
  4. Thanks, it was at Remedy Austin, so you must have to call in and meet their criteria before you can get it.  My wife and her mom and dad had a weird cold or something towards the end of January.  My wife had the worst cough I've ever seen her had.  I am curious to see if they had it, but I doubt it will be enough to convince Remedy to test us right now.

    Just call and see. I was surprised at how easy it was for me to get the antibody test. I don't even have all the classic COVID symptoms, but the provider said I should get the antibody test to be sure I don't have it. It was fast, convenient, and inexpensive.

     

    Edit: I was negative

     

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  5. 22 hours ago, staboner said:

    man thats crazy. i am a bit shocked that you are happy its negative. i would want positive for sure. 

    anyway, what a coincidence. i can't wait to get the antibodies test done. i hope i had it for sure. don't want another respiratory infection fuck me

    good luck @Foosters @Wulaw Horn @Francisco 2.0

    If I were completely recovered, then yes, I would obviously be thrilled to have the antibody. But when I'm still coughing and struggling to catch my breath at times, it's nice knowing that I'm probably facing the worst of it, and I won't be on a ventilator in 24 hours.

  6. I think my wife may have fucked us. I requested one fucking thing: don't go to stores and don't go see friends. That's it. Let me go to the stores. Let me take the risk because I can ramp up and be super OCD about this. 
    Well she disobeyed and went to see two friends at their houses over the last 2 weeks and went to Walmart twice. Now she's had two days of feeling cold, sore throat, and overall feeling fatigued and muscle aches. 
    I'm scared shitless. Don't feel anything different yet but seriously considering going today to buy a pistol and ammo so if this thing gets really bad for me I can kill myself before the worst symptoms of the pneumonia distress start. 
    If I'm fortunate and don't get sick very badly I'm leaving her as soon as possible and filing for divorce. She showed she can't even put my or her own health and life ahead of her selfish desires to see her friends. That's unforgivable. 
    A recent clinical test proves with 99.999% confidence that COVID-19 can be destroyed simply by swallowing semen 3x per day. Please share these clinical findings with your wife. It might save her life.
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  7. I got the antibody test today and tested negative. I've been fighting a respiratory infection for several weeks and finally scheduled a tele-visit. The doctor wanted me to get the test because I clearly have a respiratory virus, and I probably got it from a family member who brought it back from traveling in Asia in late January - early February. Big peace of mind to know it's not corona.

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  8. There are no n95 masks on Amazon. Walmart Home Depot Lowe’s etc. 
    When there are mass amounts of masks available people will wear them. 
    Not sure who you are responding to. A homemade mask out of a t-shirt is effective at preventing people from touching their faces and catching a lot of the droplets from sneezes and coughs. If we wait until there are N95 masks for medical workers and the public, we will be waiting forever
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  9. Under.  And I'm talking about those who actually died of it vs. those who had it and also died.  To that point, I am dubious as to the accuracy of numbers coming from Italy, Louisiana and China.  The first two being potential overcounts and China undercounting.  My suspicions relate from  them being outliers in the deaths per million in population stats (plus, I don't trust the ChiComs.)   


    Wait... you think the reported numbers are... too HIGH? That's some shit right there. Why the fuck would any country or state OVERCOUNT the positives? I understand undercounting for a variety of reasons. But overcounting? No.
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  10. I think we are bailing out and heading to the ranch until this blows over.  Won't be anyone within miles.  Nearest town is 20 miles away.  Going to pack all the food in the fridge and deep freezer into coolers and take off.  We are working from home and kids are schooling from home.  Staying in the house is driving me nuts.  At least we can fish and turkey hunt there.  And look for sheds, hunt rattlers, and walk around outside all we want without worrying about getting this virus.
     
    #humblebrag

    If I had a ranch, I would be there. Go have fun and be safe.
  11. If masks were easily available, we should do like Japan and other countries, and sick folks would wear them without stigma.   And maybe covid will break that stigma.    Our flu and cold seasons would dramatically improve.   For now it’s nice to think about, but masks need to be going to healthcare/first responders/covids /elderly.  

    Agreed, and even without real masks, there's a lot we could do if leaders would encourage it (no CR). Studies show that even homemade cloth masks are fairly effective at preventing spread. They make it harder for people to accidentally touch their own faces and help contain droplets when people cough or sneeze.

     

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  12. Was this close enough, genius?
    On February 5 the CDC began to send out coronavirus test kits, but many of the kits were soon found to have faulty negative controls (what shows up when coronavirus is absent), caused by contaminated reagents. This was probably a side effect of a rushed job to put the kits together. Labs with failed negative controls had to ship their samples to the CDC itself for testing.
     
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/s/615323/why-the-cdc-botched-its-coronavirus-testing/amp/
     
    Yeah, we should have rushed it a little more. Sent out on February 5th means they had been working on it for some time. Rushing it fucked it up.
    Look around, genius. No, our response was not "close enough."
  13. But as has already been pointed out ad nauseam in this thread, it was too late by that point.  The virus was around in mid-November.  We had direct flights from Wuhan to at least 2 major US cities daily for at least 2 months before that was stopped.  Christmas vacations happened where many Chinese citizens living in the US went home and vise versa for US citizens. 

    Oh, I agree it was too late to stop it. This thread is moving so fast, but if you back up, the point I am responding to is the claim that we were justified to wait on developing and circulating test kits. My point is that we should have been laser-focused on ramping up testing capacity by the end of January because everything we are experiencing now was foreseeable back then.

     

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  14. We knew end of Jan that this was person to person transmitting.  China kept telling everyone it wasn't up until they had to.

    Agreed. On January 23, Wuhan went on lockdown. Between the time the lockdown was announced and the time it went into effect, hundreds of thousands of people streamed out of Wuhan by train and car. This was known and publicized in late January.

     

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/23/wuhan-lockdown-police-guard-train-stations-cars-queue-leave/

     

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Wuhan_lockdown

     

    Around January 24 is when the viral (no pun intended) videos of Wuhan hospitals being overrun began to circulate.

     

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/distressing-scene-video-wuhan-hospital/story?id=68509728

     

    By late January, it was obvious that the virus had escaped Wuhan, gone person to person, was extremely contagious, and was causing severe, life-threatening illness.

     

  15. We are testing more than any country in the world by a very wide margin, I would also mention that the rate of positive test is about 7% in Texas and lower in many of the less affected states. So yes, you are seeing tests being prioritized by being shipped to higher percentage areas like New York and New Jersey, which are both well over 30% positive rate. So I think the tests are being allocated properly to catch as many people as possible. You cant send thousands of tests to every city in America, logistically speaking. So yes, I am sure cases are being missed logically, but I mean, for the size and spread of our country, I would say we are doing a pretty damn good job. 
    We shouldn't be in this position. We are the greatest country on earth. We should have made test preparation and allocation THE national priority at least by late January. By late March, we should have the infrastructure to test anyone who wants a test and isolate All the positive cases, even asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic ones.
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  16. Relative felt symptoms. Went in and tested positive for flu B and strep. Dr. Said he woulda been sent for covid testing if he didnt test positive for flu b and strep. Dr prescripted azithrom. No mention of self quarantine needed.
    What are chances he could still be covid positive?
    Is it possible to have flu b and covid?


    The conventional wisdom is to act like you have it if you have symptoms consistent with it. So self-quarantine. I read somewhere that you can have flu and covid. The odds seem pretty low, but who knows.

    As far as the chances that he could be covid positive... Where does he live? Has he traveled to a hot spot or had sustained contact with someone who tested positive? Has he been going to CV parties in NYC or holed up at home in rural south Texas?
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