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In reply to the discussion: What is your covid status? [View all]cadoman
(792 posts)16. I'm surprised how few seem to have had it so far..
Is there a comparable study or poll with this information we can look at?
Might be good to break down between those who got a blood test and those who just got PCR. PCR it was discovered recently is pretty unreliable, and different regions have been using different cycle counts.
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Were you in Wuhan before that? All of the eight US cases in January 2020 were directly related to
Celerity
Aug 2021
#5
At that stage there were so few tests, you could only get one if you had travel links to China.
meadowlander
Aug 2021
#10
The odds of having COVID in the US in January 2020 are staggering low, especially if not
Celerity
Aug 2021
#13
We don't know what the odds are because the data is rubbish because there were no tests.
meadowlander
Aug 2021
#14
I'm sticking to the science, & documented epidemiological data, not contrarian anecdotal conjecture.
Celerity
Aug 2021
#15
Doesn't the science show covid was here in the fall of 2019? Waste water samples show that, no?
boston bean
Aug 2021
#27
Show me documented human infections from then and I will gladly retract that part.
Celerity
Aug 2021
#29
I believe you were really sick, I did not mean to imply that at all, sorry if it came off like that
Celerity
Aug 2021
#25
I believe you were really sick, I did not mean to imply that at all, sorry if it came off like that
Celerity
Aug 2021
#26
If there was an antibody test, I'd have been interested to have one before I got vaccinated.
meadowlander
Aug 2021
#12
Might have had it very early, shortly before the alarms went off publicly in the US.
smirkymonkey
Aug 2021
#22