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an antibody test would enable those people who test positive for them to go back to a close to normal way of life
Is this true though? You're still walking around smearing your hands on things even if you categorically are not personally contagious (which you could be). My worry is people will take a positive result as carte blanche to disregard all the handwashing etc. and accidentally spread it further.
You also create an incentive for people to go out and get the virus intentionally. Your boss might say "go and lick some products in the supermarket so we can reopen in 2 weeks, or else we'll sack you".
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Every time I think about the testing situation it makes my head hurt - why, when an antibody test would enable those people who test positive for them to go back to a close to normal way of life, are we not throwing massive resource at this? For e.g. the 25% of the NHS that are having to self isolate are crying out for this, paired with an active infection test.
It seems like we are shooting ourselves in the foot every day that we don't roll out a decent testing program.