rozzieoz wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 10:33 am I know lots of people, including me, who were ill around Christmas. I was fluey and exhausted, I’d love to get a test to see if it was the virus.

AndyKK wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 11:42 am

rozzieoz wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 10:33 am I know lots of people, including me, who were ill around Christmas. I was fluey and exhausted, I’d love to get a test to see if it was the virus.

Is it possible to have a test too look back? It surprises me how many have said this at the time, being ill and saying it was more then likely the virus, if it was the virus then you would be alongside the other 80% who would recover. What would worry me most about such thoughts is who I had passed it on to at the time, and hoping they were okay.

rozzieoz wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 10:33 am I know lots of people, including me, who were ill around Christmas. I was fluey and exhausted, I’d love to get a test to see if it was the virus.

Duncan wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 1:46 pm

rozzieoz wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 10:33 am I know lots of people, including me, who were ill around Christmas. I was fluey and exhausted, I’d love to get a test to see if it was the virus.

I had a bad flu at the end of January ,, it seemed a different flu to what i would have expected and although it does not seem so long ago , even then no-one was expecting it to be what it has turned out to be.

Fast forward

When I arrived back in OZ in mid March , I asked my Dr if I could have a test done for anti-bodies to the virus, and was told there were no test available.
I asked a second time a week later and was told the Corona virus does not leave any anti-bodies.
A few days age I asked at a different Doctors Consultancy and was told simply cannot be done.

Today I was going near the Gold Coast University Hospital where they have a special area set up to do testing for Corona Virus . Went through all the questions etc, only to be told NO, they cannot do testing for the anti-bodies