Looks like Russet's observatory dodged a possible COVID outbreak!

[thewayne]

The dude's test came back negative, so likely an early bad flu. The cleaner had already gone through and done a deep cleaning, and that's never a bad thing.

So lots of relief.

Thank you all for your well wishes.

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[rain_gryphon]

We told her in great detail about my immune disorder, about the antibody replacement therapy, and that antibody testing didn't work and you had to do PCR testing.

For that same teacher, I used to grade pre-med chemistry papers. Honest to God, that pretty much rubbished any ideas I had about doctors having to be knowledgable about all the disciplines that impinged on human health.

Edit: I'm surprised too that you get vaccinated. I wouldn't have expected it.

[thewayne]

Normally when a person is diagnosed with a primary immunodeficiency, they do what's known as a Pneumovax Challenge.  They're given a pneumovax pneumonia vaccination, then a month (or whatever interval) later, they're tested to see if they've developed any pneumonia antibody titers.  In my case, since I'd had pneumonia four times that year already, they decided that starting antibody replacement therapy was more important. It is not known with certainty whether I develop antibodies with the vaccinations that I get, but with one exception I haven't had the flu in the last decade.  So I get vaccinated and we hope for the best. The only way we could do a Pneumovax Challenge would be for me to stop the replacement therapy for six months and let my body reset, then do the challenge.  But I'd be extremely vulnerable to infection and would have to isolate.  We're not really interested in doing that.