60 of 5,754 MLB employees test positive for COVID-19 antibodies

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[Dreams]

 

[AngelsLakersFan]

2 minutes ago, Dreams said:

 

I'll restate what I put in the Covid thread about this... with 123 tests and a positive league wide population rate of 0.7% it would only take one Angel employee for the team's positive rate to be above average (0.8%). Two positive tests would make the team twice the mean and three positive results would make them three times the mean. 

[Dreams]

Also, these antibody tests are not acceptably reliable yet.  They may be getting better, but I would take this data with a grain of salt.

[Taylor]

Sounds like social distancing has been effective.

[Lhalo]

At this rate we should reach herd immunity in a quarter century or so. Yay team. 

[Chuck]

2 hours ago, Lhalo said:

At this rate we should reach herd immunity in a quarter century or so. Yay team. 

Seriously. 

[wopphil]

3 hours ago, Lhalo said:

At this rate we should reach herd immunity in a quarter century or so. Yay team. 

Yeah, it’s a really disappointing study. You’d hope the number of positives for antibodies would have been many multiples what it actually was. This study suggests we are in the very early stages still.

I am getting an antibody test tomorrow. In early February, my daughter came down with a virus that gave her fevers for a number of days, a sore throat, as well as pink eye. She also complained that her food tasted funny. She tested negative for strep.  A week later, my five year old came down with a cough that lasted several weeks. The cough was bad, and he had to use an inhaler and go on steroids. The other three of us had no symptoms. 

So we were hopeful two of my kids may have had it, and the other three of us were asymptomatic.  But it sounds like that might just be wishful thinking. I guess I’ll find out later this week. 

[Lhalo]

3 minutes ago, wopphil said:

Yeah, it’s a really disappointing study. You’d hope the number of positives for antibodies would have been many multiples what it actually was. This study suggests we are in the very early stages still.

I am getting an antibody test tomorrow. In early February, my daughter came down with a virus that gave her fevers for a number of days, a sore throat, as well as pink eye. She also complained that her food tasted funny. She tested negative for strep.  A week later, my five year old came down with a cough that lasted several weeks. The cough was bad, and he had to use an inhaler and go on steroids. The other three of us had no symptoms. 

So we were hopeful two of my kids may have had it, and the other three of us were asymptomatic.  But it sounds like that might just be wishful thinking. I guess I’ll find out later this week. 

Please update us with the antibody test results when you get them. That’s very interesting. Did you pay for that test or did your insurance/.gov provide it?

[ten ocho recon scout]

8 hours ago, wopphil said:

The cough was bad, and he had to use an inhaler and go on steroids. 

In all the 80s movies, the nerd kid with asthma got picked on by the jocks. Too bad the nerdy asthma kids didnt get those inhalers.

[wopphil]

9 hours ago, Lhalo said:

Please update us with the antibody test results when you get them. That’s very interesting. Did you pay for that test or did your insurance/.gov provide it?

I will definitely do so. My daughter actually came down with her illness one week after spending time with my niece, who was really sick with a number of COVID symptoms (including persistent fevers), but tested negative for strep and flu (she was officially diagnosed with a “flu like virus”). And then my daughter’s symptoms were text book COVID, as were my son’s.

So I had been pretty optimistic that perhaps we all got this. But my niece got sick in mid January, which now seems a bit early to have been COVID. From what I understand, while the disease was here at that time, it wasn’t widespread. So the odds my niece had it are extremely slim. 

[yk9001]

10 hours ago, wopphil said:

Yeah, it’s a really disappointing study. You’d hope the number of positives for antibodies would have been many multiples what it actually was. This study suggests we are in the very early stages still.

I am getting an antibody test tomorrow. In early February, my daughter came down with a virus that gave her fevers for a number of days, a sore throat, as well as pink eye. She also complained that her food tasted funny. She tested negative for strep.  A week later, my five year old came down with a cough that lasted several weeks. The cough was bad, and he had to use an inhaler and go on steroids. The other three of us had no symptoms. 

So we were hopeful two of my kids may have had it, and the other three of us were asymptomatic.  But it sounds like that might just be wishful thinking. I guess I’ll find out later this week. 

She said back in February that her food tasted funny?

 

This has to be covid.  Way too many coincidences.

[wopphil]

1 hour ago, yk9001 said:

She said back in February that her food tasted funny?

 

This has to be covid.  Way too many coincidences.

My daughter loves to eat. And whatever she was eating that day was probably something she liked. So for her to complain that her food “tasted funny” was definitely unusual. I don’t recall her ever making such a complaint before.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

3 hours ago, wopphil said:

So I had been pretty optimistic that perhaps we all got this. 

I was actually hoping that perhaps I was exposed to it at a low level when I made an Anaheim hockey trip in late February - shortly before the season was shut down. I might have at least developed antibodies.

I haven't been tested yet, have never shown any symptoms.

[AngelsLakersFan]

2 hours ago, wopphil said:

My daughter loves to eat. And whatever she was eating that day was probably something she liked. So for her to complain that her food “tasted funny” was definitely unusual. I don’t recall her ever making such a complaint before.

It's common for food to taste funny when you are sick. Covid has been more about your food smelling funny...

[wopphil]

I am not expecting my test to come back positive. It would be an incredibly unexpected and welcome surprise if it did. 

[wopphil]

Got my results. Negative, unfortunately.

[Tank]

On 5/11/2020 at 10:36 AM, wopphil said:

My daughter loves to eat. And whatever she was eating that day was probably something she liked. So for her to complain that her food “tasted funny” was definitely unusual. I don’t recall her ever making such a complaint before.

I hope it wasn't the soyrizo.