08-20-2020, 02:08 PM
pdq wrote:
Yeah, I’m Sarcany on this one. How do we know that the three (young, healthy) sailors didn’t contract Covid like anyone else on the ship, and just had an asymptomatic/mild case that was cleared by the time they got back to land for testing?
If they had shown they had antibodies _before_ they left (and ideally, had multiple negative antigen tests during their time of exposure at sea) that would be more convincing.
“six of the 120 people tested before the boat’s departure had antibodies to the virus indicating prior exposure.
But when the researchers reanalyzed those samples using more sophisticated tests, only three of the six were confirmed to have antibodies”