📢Test Kits same as those China used most recently.🤔
Me: Remember when China went to "new tests" same wk they changed reporting data 4 times in Feb?
POC test: finger prick antibodies test not a PCR.
Hong Kong co. w/US Distributor (See next tweet)
kdvr.com/news/coronavir…
Me: Remember when China went to "new tests" same wk they changed reporting data 4 times in Feb?
POC test: finger prick antibodies test not a PCR.
Hong Kong co. w/US Distributor (See next tweet)
kdvr.com/news/coronavir…
IF below is true, testing antibodies for #COVID-19 in early infection week could easily MISS detection w/ finger prick.
📢Small study of macaques, shows antibody levels were relatively low during 1st week after infection & surged at 3 & 4 weeks. ⤵️⤵️
the-scientist.com/news-opinion/m…
📢Small study of macaques, shows antibody levels were relatively low during 1st week after infection & surged at 3 & 4 weeks. ⤵️⤵️
the-scientist.com/news-opinion/m…
“Our study found that neutralizing antibodies are produced in the process of recovery after SARS-CoV-2 infection,” Qin writes in an email to The Scientist.
While Canada has agreed to use this testing, I'm not sure our FDA will pass it ... and not sure they should.
Significant antibodies, if above small test is true, are not prevalent until week 3 or 4 of COVID-19 infection.
Significant antibodies, if above small test is true, are not prevalent until week 3 or 4 of COVID-19 infection.
And ... side note on "re-infection". 
Short Thread.
Tweeted because a whole lot of people think this should be rushed through F D A approval as a primary test.
I think it could miss early positive testing & send ppl into public until they are really sick 2 - 4 weeks later.
Thoughts?
Tweeted because a whole lot of people think this should be rushed through F D A approval as a primary test.
I think it could miss early positive testing & send ppl into public until they are really sick 2 - 4 weeks later.
Thoughts?
