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Big Boy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:11 pm

Lost wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:09 pm Got me doing the 10 second 'hold your breath' thing anywho.

+1 & I started drinking water every 15 minutes

To be fair, keeping extra hydrated is probably good practice anyway, BB. So not pointless that.

Thanks pharvey for your post.

Together with the Washington Post article on the Coronavirus thread (posted by J.J.B) they are the only articles I've seen anywhere to date that were worth reading...

Chazz14 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 10:04 pm Thanks pharvey for your post.

Together with the Washington Post article on the Coronavirus thread (posted by J.J.B) they are the only articles I've seen anywhere to date that were worth reading...

If you'd read the subsequent "not-worth-reading" posts you'd know that the info in pharvey's post (sorry Pete) is false. Confirmed by a google search.

You're not wrong DM!

(Emailed it to my brothers in the UK as soon as I read it: more haste less speed next time, I think).

dtaai-maai wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 10:15 pm If you'd read the subsequent "not-worth-reading" posts you'd know that the info in pharvey's post (sorry Pete) is false. Confirmed by a google search.

No worries - and apologies.

I think this is a good lesson for some of us (I was taken in by the email. Especially when it fraudulently listed an 'establishment' he/she worked at).

Is very easy to believe a well written article. Especially when it's giving a legitimate and respectable institution as its source.

It takes the source days to announce it's nothing to do do with them.

We gotta keep vigilant. Sucks.

Not sure if this is the right place for this one so Mods please feel free to move if appropriate.

It's coming up to this time of year when the winter warmers (snowbirds) start heading back home. What happens if they are unable to return due to flight cancellations, country lockdowns or other circumstances that prevents them travelling? Obviously if this happens some will find their visas expiring and may already have extended to the limit.

Anyone any thoughts or insights?

I was thinking the same thing in reverse. My daughter is currently in the US with her hubby. She's not due back until late May and a lot can happen between now and then. She flew with Qatar and because of government restrictions regarding Thailand, there is a chance that Qatar Airlines will cancel flights in the future. All this could mean she'll be trapped in the US and her 90 day visa will expire.

A question for the medically minded on here....

Appreciate you can be tested for COVID 19(at varying prices)

But can you be tested.....

*to check whether you've already had it? *

Thanks

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You can but I'm sure not commercially available.

thecolonel wrote:A question for the medically minded on here....

Appreciate you can be tested for COVID 19(at varying prices)

But can you be tested.....

*to check whether you've already had it? *

Thanks

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Or does the test already include current or past infection? Is that how these things work?

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thecolonel wrote:

thecolonel wrote:A question for the medically minded on here....

Appreciate you can be tested for COVID 19(at varying prices)

But can you be tested.....

*to check whether you've already had it? *

Thanks

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Or does the test already include current or past infection? Is that how these things work?

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The test for active infection would be looking for active virus. If you've had it and recovered there would be no active virus found (unless you've somehow become an asymptomatic carrier), and you would need to be tested for antibodies developed by the body to fight the virus. Is such a test available in Thailand? Dunno.

hhinner wrote:

thecolonel wrote:

thecolonel wrote:A question for the medically minded on here....

Appreciate you can be tested for COVID 19(at varying prices)

But can you be tested.....

*to check whether you've already had it? *

Thanks

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Or does the test already include current or past infection? Is that how these things work?

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The test for active infection would be looking for active virus. If you've had it and recovered there would be no active virus found (unless you've somehow become an asymptomatic carrier), and you would need to be tested for antibodies developed by the body to fight the virus. Is such a test available in Thailand? Dunno.

Thanks. So you're suggesting there is a separate test to check if already had it, but its probably not available to public

OK, so everyone has their own agendas but..... for me, unless one was clearly showing the classic symptoms and you needed a diagnosis for treatment, then what's the point of spending up to 25,000 baht having the test done, to be told your negative, but you could walk out of the hospital and catch it that very night!

Far better(and financially far more viable) to be told you haven't got it AND you're extremely unlikely to get it either as the test indicates you've already had it!

But if that's not how it works(sound s like it isn't) then so be it.

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Pharmaceutical companies use antibodies when developing vaccines. I think initially an animal (lab rat) is modified to have a similar immune system to humans. The proteins are then injected into the lab rat and the resultant antibodies are used in developing both a vaccine and a treatment.

There is also the possibility of this virus mutating (already is according to some unofficial reports) so even if you have already had it you could catch another variant.