I'm in Canada right now. Our universal healthcare won't pay for it I heard. I don't have insurance.

unreliable
 

My sister who is a nurse in AZ said her doctor told her the test was 50% unreliable.

Covid19 antibody testing
 

If you donate blood @One Blood, they do free antibody testing. And you are doing a good thing to help the sick & injured😍

I, too, thought I had had COVID, and when the Quest test came out for $119 I went for it. I got the results with a caveat that the test had not been reviewed by the FDA and had a good chance of being inaccurate, and if I still thought I had it, I should get a molecular type test. Before you spend any money, make sure that the test has the best chance to be accurate.

Quest labs in Brownwood quoted $110

Let me get this straight you left the villages in March this is June which is 12 weeks and you think you have the virus , kind of hard to believe .

Covid Test
 

If you make an appointment with One Blood to donate a pint of blood - they do the covid antibody test for free.

Be aware that even if you DO have any antibodies, since you had “mild” symptoms, those antibodies aren’t as strong as someone’s who was seriously ill. No one knows how long those antibodies stay in your body, but a mild case would afford little or no future protection.

Oneblood.org offers free antibody testing if you donate blood (at least they did when I donated 2 weeks ago).

Re-read his post. He feels that he already had it.

I got the antibody test here $129
 

I too thought I had COVID-19 In January. My illness checked every box of known symptoms. I was out for about 5 to 6 weeks. Recovered. Always wondered whether it was indeed Covid or not. Since we just arrived in The Villages in April and have no doctor I was able to go online and order an antibody test from Quest labs. The total came to $129. They have facilities all over. You can choose the location near you to have blood drawn. It was worth the peace of mind. Unfortunately, I was hoping for a positive but the test came back negative. I’m still not convinced it wasn’t COVID 19.

Everything I’ve read, gives the impression that immunity is not long term. So you won’t know when it expires. Also, if you are positive, what change will it make to your life. You still can’t fly around the world. You could still be run over by a golf cart. If mask wearing becomes the norm, then you might get stoned to death for being the one person who wasn’t wearing a mask.

Free testing in Sumter County - with or without symptoms via nasal swab. it is to see if you have COVID NOT antibodies.

The county has been doing this testing at different places each day for a price of $20. Contact the county.

At the beginning of the outbreak, it was thought the best way to get a lot of test kits on the market was to open the market with little to no FDA approval process. All you had to do was register the kit with the FDA, and then you could sell it. This led to over 160 test kits being marketed, many of which were bad science, and some that were total scams.

After a couple of months of this, the FDA started clamping down. There are now 21 test kits that have received further FDA review and are at least "decent." These tests are on the FDA website page linked below.

If you go in for an antibody test, ASK WHICH TEST THE PROVIDER IS USING. If they can't tell you, don't go there. There are still a lot of crappy kits floating around. If the test is on the attached list, go for it. As mentioned in a prior post, the Roche kit has the best metrics IMO but others are also reasonably good.

P.S. Quest is using kits from Abbott, Ortho, and Euroimmun, all are on the FDA EUA list below.


EUA Authorized Serology Test Performance | FDA