“American medics officially registered their first Covid-19 patient on January 19, 2020, but the findings in a paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases suggest the virus may have been circulating in the US prior to that.”
“The researchers studied almost 7,400 blood donations made in nine US states between December 13, 2019 and January 17, 2020. Evidence of Covid-19 bodies antibodies, the presence of which suggest a person had contact with the virus, were present in 106 of those samples, according to the study.”
“This means coronavirus could have been in the US a month before it saw its first confirmed case, and weeks before the Chinese authorities announced the infection in the city of Wuhan.”
I got the flu (or so I was told, the test came back negative but they said it has a high false negative rate and I had the symptoms so they chalked it up as flu) back in january. Ever since then my breathing has been fucked up, I wake up every morning struggling to breathe, I get out of breath really easily, my lungs hurt all the time. Maybe I should look into antibody testing.
If you had it in January I don’t think you’d be able to tell through an antibody year. Don’t take my word for it because im not sure but I thought they went away after 7-8 months
Shit I hope you're wrong because wouldn't that make a vaccine a lot less effective?
Yep sadly
no, your body keeps "memory cells" to be able to quickly produce antibodies again if necessary, you can still be protected even without currently active antibodies
Ah ok thanks for the clarification!
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Definitely possible imo
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Jesus that sucks. I hope as time goes on you'll start to feel better. This shit is the worst.
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I honestly can't foresee it getting much better any time soon. I doubt the Biden admin would try any real measures but if they did the chud masses would revolt against even more than they did earlier this year.
We're betting everything on the vaccine but I don't think it's a given that we can get 70% of the population vaccinated. Dark times ahead
Especially if they don't put any legislation or provisions in place that ensure it wouldn't have to be paid for by the recipients. A lot of states were (possibly still are?) doing a thing where they would provide free covid testing but it was some stupid bullshit where your insurance would pay full price for it and the state would reimburse them. So if you didn't have insurance you were SOL.
I got super sick last November to the point where I failed two classes because I was sleeping so much. Holy fuck.