For those of you who have been through the covid-19 ordeal...

He tested negative for the virus, but did they also give the test to see if he has the antibodies?
Until he has that test you will not know if he actually had it or not.

 

Antibody test requires a blood test. And it takes longer to get the results back, so few are getting that test, as I understand it. I believe it is also more expensive.

 

From what I have heard the antibody test is a simple finger prick, and the results are in about 15 minutes.

 

I really don’t trust these test kits. So far no one can replicate test kits that South Korea has made.

First it was the swab test kit, proven to be inaccurate 50% of the time. Just read up on the test kits Spain bought. They bought like 600k and none of them work.

Now it’s the antibodies test kit similar to STD/HIV T-cell count test. This will be accurate when the virus has been incubating in your body for a long time. These things literally multiply to trillions. A little swab test or antibody test won’t show anything for the first couple of days.

What they’re hoping for is a test kit that can prove results fast, and results now. The day someone sneezes on you, won’t be the day you test positive but it will be the day you catch the virus.

 

They're just now ramping up production of the blood serology tests to detect antibodies, and they weren't readily available when he was sick just a couple weeks ago. My guess is that they're going to make hundreds of millions of those tests and start handing them out like candy from this point forward. That's when we get an accurate picture of just how wide spread this thing really is, and people who've had it can get back to work. Hopefully it won't mutate to the point where people start getting reinfected.

My 22 year old daughter has been fighting a bad headache for the last 4 days which just let up today, but now she has some swollen lymph nodes on one side of her neck. She's fighting off something but we're not sure what just yet. I have read that swollen nodes and headache are not common symptoms of Covid-19.

 

If anybody is interested in following the daily numbers for infections and deaths from covid-19 around the world, this web site keeps accurate stats. The death rate has been decreasing in the US for the last couple of days. I think on Wednesday we had 1,200 deaths, and today we had just over 500. Hopefully that's a good sign.

Scroll down a little to see the stats by country. Of course China's numbers are way off because they're lying through their buck teeth.

Coronavirus 2019-nCov Statistics Update (Live)

 

You need to take her in.

Lymph Nodes are a situation that is a front line combat of whatever is making her sick. They do not swell up unless its a extreme situation. If its the neck there are just too important pathways in that section to ignore the pressures imposed by the swelling.

 

Eat zinc, 150-250mg first day, 100mg a day afterwards. Poof bugs gone

 

Dude, you’re going to get someone hurt by prescribing zinc.

“The National Institutes of Health considers 40 mg of zinc a day to be the upper limit dose for adults and 4 mg of zinc a day for infants under age 6 months.”

Zinc

Office of Dietary Supplements - Zinc

7 Signs and Symptoms of Zinc Overdose

 

Zinc is good, just in moderation. And yes you can OD on it and get sick from too much.

One of the main benefits from using that malaria drug chloroquine that's getting so much attention is that it has a high amount of zinc which prevents certain types of virus from entering human cells. Zinc cough drops and nasal spray has been on the market for years and used to lessen or shorten the symptoms of the common cold (a virus) and the flu.

I've been reading some interesting things this morning about the coronavirus and why some countries don't appear to see it spreading like it is here and in a few other countries. India in particular caught my attention because they have roughly the same population as China in an area the size one third that of the US, and practicing social distancing is nearly impossible. As it turns out, most countries in the world give a vaccination at birth called BCG, which is used to prevent tuberculosis. These countries give the shot to infants, and some countries give a follow-up vaccination 15 or so years later. India is one of those countries, as well as Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, and most of the countries we're seeing with very few cases and deaths from coronavirus. The US, Italy and several other western countries have never given the vaccine, or decided to discontinue it decades ago, and decided that it would be better to treat the active cases rather than give a vaccine to prevent it from happening.

So it's starting to look like a vaccine developed and distributed almost 100 years ago truly prevents the coronavirus from infecting people, and we the residents of first world countries with the best healthcare in the world are the people who are the most susceptible to the virus. Isn't that just great?