[2006alum]

A doc has to order the test. I dont know the details but my doc who is in private practice (ie, not a Stanford doc) offered to order it, but suggested waiting a couple weeks to get some preliminary info on how the test is working, and to let the curve flatten so that less risk in spending time in a clinic waiting room.

There's a theory that Californians have some degree of herd immunity because the virus may have been introduced to the state late last year.  I wanted to take the antibody test because in December I was floored for two weeks with similar symptoms and a wracking cough which persisted for six weeks.  My college roommate lives in Santa Ana and he and his son had all of these symptoms in January.

https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-covid-1...a/6091220/

Since we have been discussing experts staying in their lanes, you might find this background detail about this theory informative:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/carlzimmer/status/1248669152820297730?s=20[/tweet]

And then there's this:
[tweet]https://twitter.com/summerbrennan/status/1248458481092321282?s=20[/tweet]

More generally, the likelihood that California is anywhere near herd immunity is basically fantasy. In a "hard hit" town in Germany they did random seriological testing and even there found only 14% had antibodies. And that was an area where there was an intense, known outbreak:
[tweet]https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1248188438098182145?s=20[/tweet]

[2006alum]

A doc has to order the test. I dont know the details but my doc who is in private practice (ie, not a Stanford doc) offered to order it, but suggested waiting a couple weeks to get some preliminary info on how the test is working, and to let the curve flatten so that less risk in spending time in a clinic waiting room.

There's a theory that Californians have some degree of herd immunity because the virus may have been introduced to the state late last year.  I wanted to take the antibody test because in December I was floored for two weeks with similar symptoms and a wracking cough which persisted for six weeks.  My college roommate lives in Santa Ana and he and his son had all of these symptoms in January.

https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-covid-1...a/6091220/

Since we have been discussing experts staying in their lanes, you might find this background detail about this theory informative:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/carlzimmer/status/1248669152820297730?s=20[/tweet]

And then there's this:
[tweet]https://twitter.com/summerbrennan/status/1248458481092321282?s=20[/tweet]

More generally, the likelihood that California is anywhere near herd immunity is basically fantasy. In a "hard hit" town in Germany they did random seriological testing and even there found only 14% had antibodies. And that was an area where there was an intense, known outbreak:
[tweet]https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1248188438098182145?s=20[/tweet]