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That works in places that kept good records, but I have to imagine the vast majority of counties don't have those records. Plus I'm sure many people got infecte
by jliptzin 5y ago
That works in places that kept good records, but I have to imagine the vast majority of counties don't have those records. Plus I'm sure many people got infected and stayed home with mild/moderate cases and never got tested (because they knew they had it and/or didn't want to risk spreading to others), so there would be no record for them anyway. Or their cases were so early on in the pandemic that there were no tests available or the ones that were available were very unreliable (I remember the early ones only had ~50% accuracy)
- colordrops 5y agoEasy, don't excuse people who don't have a verifiable record or from a test with a known high false positive rate. What's so hard about that? Airlines have figured it out, limiting which tests you can use. Why can't public health officials?
- lborsato 5y agoMy family had Covid in January 2020. All of the now known symptoms but there were no tests available yet. Our doctor later confirmed it based on symptoms a couple of months later but we were not eligible for tests then. A year and a half later we would certainly have B-cells but antibodies would likely have faded. So what do people in that situation do?
- colordrops 5y agoGet vaccinated. This isn't a political two-sided issue.
- ceejayoz 5y agoGiven that there's significant overlap between COVID symptoms and those of other common winter diseases, you really can't "confirm based on symptoms". (My son had a bout of severe pneumonia around the same time. We wondered, too. Not COVID, it turns out.) Therein lies a significant problem with "I don't need the vaccine, I have natural immunity!"
- yryan 5y agohttps://www.t-detect.com/ https://www.t-detect.com/
- evilpotatoes 5y agoT-detect can apparently read your t-cells, so it would be good for a while I would say.