Is the COVID denominator inaccurate?

[Allegri]

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Interesting! This spectrum of disease is fascinating, from completely asymptomatic to occasionally killing healthy young people.
Next question is equally interesting: Are you now immune to infection/spread of virus?

 

[gbwillner]

Med dir., please stop posting here as I don't want to contract COVID from you.

Also, in Jan my dad and a cousin (age 48) went to a funeral and both got a severe pneumonia, requiring hospitalization for a week for my cousin. They both got it about a week after the funeral and wondered if they had the same thing. I looked at the path reports and both had different bacterial pathogens, so i told them it was likely unrelated. Obviously they both likely had COVID and a secondary bacterial infection.

 

[D1b()4]

Just got my IGG test back : POSITIVE

this was run on the abbot Immunoasaay (not POC). I took a look at the package insert to review the validation data with interest in test specificity.

Abbot ran 997 archived sera drawn before the Covid outbreak. Only 4 of them were positive, presumably cross reacting with other corona viruses. So the test looks pretty specific.

In retrospect I likely had this back in mid Feb, I do recall a mild thing that I dismissed as a cold lasting about a day. I was a little fatigued for maybe one additional day. Never felt like I had a fever. Never failed the temperature checks that started about 3-4 weeks ago for me at work.

Did anyone at work get it as well?

 

[Med Director New England]

Did anyone at work get it as well?

There are a couple of other cases that I know of who got it - actually got sick and were positive for the virus. But nobody that I know of who had direct contact with me tested positive. If I had it when I think I did - it was before masking was widespread but folks were socially distancing.