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what has your experience been?

symptomatic and tested positive
22 (13.7%)
sympotomatic and tested negative
5 (3.1%)
symptomatic but didnt test
64 (39.8%)
asymptomatic and tested positive
2 (1.2%)
asymptomatic and tested negative
6 (3.7%)
asymptomatic, didnt test
62 (38.5%)

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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #440 on: May 11, 2020, 10:53:16 PM »
So these people are not contagious even though they are symptomatic and positive?

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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #441 on: May 11, 2020, 11:13:04 PM »
There is no official data but most doctors are assuming that once symptoms resolve you’re not contagious anymore. I don’t know how they’re treating these cases of reinfection, perhaps they assume the virus is finding dead cells and they’re really symptomatic with something else? I keep hearing more and more of these stories.

Most recently, an uncle and aunt both tested positive when they were showing symptoms Purim time. They recovered and were healthy for weeks. Last week, my aunt fell ill again (worse this time, she can’t get out of bed) and my uncle went to test (as a requirement before an unrelated surgery) and tested positive again.. this is 6 weeks after the first test

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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #442 on: May 12, 2020, 07:15:30 AM »
So these people are not contagious even though they are symptomatic and positive?

It's possible they're not contagious in the interim period, but nobody really knows.

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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #443 on: May 12, 2020, 10:08:48 AM »
It's possible they're not contagious in the interim period, but nobody really knows.
Source? Anything I've seen has been regarding asymptomatic positives.

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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #444 on: May 12, 2020, 10:26:03 AM »
My understanding is that anybody with a positive PCR swab test can be shedding the virus. Anybody with a negative PCR test isn't contagious, except for the fact that there is no reliable negative test so there is no way to determine it.
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #445 on: May 12, 2020, 10:38:40 AM »
My understanding is that anybody with a positive PCR swab test can be shedding the virus. Anybody with a negative PCR test isn't contagious, except for the fact that there is no reliable negative test so there is no way to determine it.
2 negative tests is considered reliable.
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #446 on: May 12, 2020, 10:41:35 AM »
2 negative tests is considered reliable.
Doesn't make it reliable though.
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #447 on: May 12, 2020, 10:54:29 AM »
My understanding is that anybody with a positive PCR swab test can potentially be shedding the virus. Anybody with a negative PCR test isn't contagious, except for the fact that there is no reliable negative test so there is no way to determine it.

FTFY. We just don’t know.
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #448 on: May 12, 2020, 11:03:56 AM »
FTFY. We just don’t know.
If there's transmittable live virus RNA, is there any way it isn't contagious? The PCR swab tests when processed correctly don't have false positives.
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #449 on: May 12, 2020, 02:11:30 PM »
Plot twist.


Next plot twist. My wife got tested now:



I'm flabbergasted.
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #450 on: May 12, 2020, 02:12:53 PM »
Next plot twist. My wife got tested now:



I'm flabbergasted.
Try again in a week?
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #451 on: May 12, 2020, 02:13:30 PM »
Plot twist.
My wife got tested now:


I'm flabbergasted.
Did she show symptoms? I have seen many couples with one test positive for antibodies and the other not, but usually the one who does not have antibodies did not show (strong) symptoms at all.

Multiple people on the forums have reported this.
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #452 on: May 12, 2020, 02:24:31 PM »
Next plot twist. My wife got tested now:



I'm flabbergasted.
still married?
I guess you filled on the census opposite gender
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #453 on: May 12, 2020, 02:26:10 PM »
Did she show symptoms? I have seen many couples with one test positive for antibodies and the other not, but usually the one who does not have antibodies did not show (strong) symptoms at all.

Multiple people on the forums have reported this.
She did not have symptoms.
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #454 on: May 12, 2020, 02:26:29 PM »
Try again in a week?
My symptoms were in late Feb and mid March.
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #455 on: May 12, 2020, 02:31:04 PM »
She did not have symptoms.
I’ve not heard of too many people showing antibodies without symptoms. If anyone has a different experience please post. This is another confirmation of that trend.

@skyguy918 witnessed this in reverse, and I proposed a few possible theories to explain it
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #456 on: May 12, 2020, 02:33:24 PM »
I’ve not heard of too many people showing antibodies without symptoms. If anyone has a different experience please post. This is another confirmation of that trend.

@skyguy918 witnessed this in reverse, and I proposed a few possible theories to explain it
Cannot verify but was told that Rav Aharon Shechter has antibodies with no known exposure or symptoms.

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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #457 on: May 12, 2020, 02:33:45 PM »
She did not have symptoms.
I'm curious about this part:For example, I tested negative for antibodies, while my wife, who had a positive diagnostic test previously, tested positive for antibodies. We took no distancing precautions from each other (simply not practical given our circumstances) of any kind during the time that she presumably had the virus. Ain lecha exposure gadol mizeh. Why would I not have contracted it? And if I truly didn't contract it, what would be different down the line to cause me to contract it from an outside source. I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat, whether people realize it or not.
Some possible answers I’ve seen (don’t know enough about the science to confirm validity):
A) You caught it once she was contagious, so you tested yourself too early because you’re really 2 weeks behind her
B) She had a low viral load, not enough to really infect others so you didn’t catch it from her
C) Not everybody gets it from everyone, as long as she didn’t sneeze or cough close to your mouth/nose it’s possible for you not to have gotten it but still get it from any random person who sneezes
D) You have some type of natural immunity so your body didn’t need to produce antibodies and you didn’t show symptoms
E) You got it, but in a really small dose, so it didn’t show on a test and you didn’t produce antibodies
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #458 on: May 12, 2020, 02:34:56 PM »
Cannot verify but was told that Rav Aharon Shechter has antibodies with no known exposure or symptoms.
When and why did he check if he had no symptoms? Thanks for the DP
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Re: Do you have Coronavirus? Were you tested?
« Reply #459 on: May 12, 2020, 02:35:25 PM »
I’ve not heard of too many people showing antibodies without symptoms. If anyone has a different experience please post. This is another confirmation of that trend.

@skyguy918 witnessed this in reverse, and I proposed a few possible theories to explain it
yes, with the added strangeness that I had symptoms (fever at the very least) and still was negative. Obviously could have been something else, but very strange considering our timeline.