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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, I am the opposite. I'm getting ready to let my kids play with another kid in our backyard soon. We've all tested positive for antibodies so that give me a little bit more security. Yes, I know technically it shouldn't, but it does.[/quote]
How do you know you won't spread it to others? Have you tested negative from the nasal swab? WTF, PP?[/quote]

Because I was sick over 2 months ago. Have been symptom free for over eight weeks. Doctors advise people with positive covid tests they can come out of quarantine 2 weeks after symptoms are gone.

And I am still wearing a mask when I go out. And staying socially distant.

But tell me, please - at what point can I visit with a neighbor from 3 or 4 feet away in a backyard? When can my kid throw a football with a friend? Not until there is a vaccine? When is that magic moment?[/quote]

Why would you not assume you had immunity?  The consensus opinion would be that you do, it just hasn’t been definitively proven yet.[/quote]

Apparently other coronaviruses do give lasting immunity so there is some concern that someone who gets this one may be able to get it again.  To my knowledge, there's no data right now either way.

But beyond that, we also have no measuring stick to tell whether someone who has antibodies has enough to confer immunity.  Qualitative antibody tests (the ones that test titer levels, not presence of antibodies) are used to evaluate whether someone's antibody levels fall at a level that is immune, somewhat immune, or not immune.  Those titer level measuring sticks don't exist yet for COVID-19.

As an example .. I had the usual vaccine sequence when I was a kid, but when I was pregnant for the first time and they tested me for immunity to Rubella, my levels were low enough that I was not immune to it.  Apparently my body did not create enough long term antibodies in response to that vaccine.  So I got to enjoy an MMR alongside my son (and boy that shot is a MFer).

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This is very interesting to me PP. My DD tested positive for COVID earlier this week and the rest of us all tested negative a few days later. We have not been sick though (except that my husband had a fever for one day a week/10 days before my DD had her first symptoms). I want to get us the antibody test as well[/quote]

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