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It's important to test the public to see the penetration into the population. People who test positive should get an RNA test to determine if infected. Peop
by adrr 7y ago
It's important to test the public to see the penetration into the population. People who test positive should get an RNA test to determine if infected. People who are not infected become valuable assets to keep logistics and supply chain up and work front line tasks as they have little risk of getting infected. This group people can return back to normal life and don't need to be lockdown.
- CreepGin 7y agoI can't help but ask... How much risk is "little risk" here? Can they still contribute to the spread? And what percentage of population can fall into this group?
- maxerickson 7y agoWe don't know. The period of immunity following infections varies, and this virus is not well understood.
- codyb 7y agoI think if you test positive with an antibody test but not an rna test it means your immune system has the ability to fight it off from a previous infection but the virus isn’t currently multiplying inside you.
- devonbleak 7y agoIf you're testing positive for antibodies and negative for the virus RNA itself it means your immune system has been exposed and recovered. This is also what you'd expect to see in someone that has been vaccinated. They would not be contagious at that point because the virus is not present. This is not the same as someone that gets infected but is asymptomatic - they would still test positive for RNA. The percentage of the population that would naturally fall into this group would likely be very small given this is a novel virus so pretty much nobody's immune system had been exposed prior to a few months ago, and we're seeing pretty massive infection rates globally.