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On the news it just said we're likely in the UK to be going into national lockdown for a month from next week until December 2, except for educational establishments. That surprises me, because I thought educational establishments were where coronavirus is especially spreading. Am I wrong? I...

What's the hold-up on the widespread provision of antibody tests? Is it a lack of some raw material, or manufacturing capacity, or what?

Thanks, Mij. I wish I knew! I've been given no info and I don't know what to expect. I see frightening stuff in places about people with even mild infections having serious problems come up later but I haven't been able to find any credible source that lays out public information on it aimed at...

In this, Dr Klimas is recommending that people with (post?-)Covid take various supplements including 'baby' enteric-coated aspirin of about 80mg daily to prevent strokes because of risk of blood clots. Is this going on in post-Covid patients in the UK, whether they still feel ill or not...

This says 'RFI open until 12/7/20'. Is it too late to propose things? Wondering what research you think should be done now in what is probably a mass-ME-provoking event, @Jonathan Edwards?

I'm sorry that I haven't been following things very well lately but is there scope for an S4ME response to this? For the research that we wished people had done when we'd got sick? Covid is quite possibly a mass-ME event. The rest of us got picked off one by one, mostly, over the years, making...

Very sorry to hear that. It must be especially stressful under the current circumstances. I hope you're able to get good care, one way or another.

Just seen this about 'active challenge' trials: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54612293

This sounds very exciting: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-10-15-oxford-scientists-develop-extremely-rapid-diagnostic-test-covid-19 But:

I'm surprised not to have seen more discussion in the news about the prospect of a diagnostic, mass-produced 'chip' where you'd put a drop of blood on it and it could diagnose Covid-19, like this sort of thing. Do the bioscientists among us here fancy its chances? Surely such a thing could be a...

I've received no email.

Thanks very much - I seem to have missed that opportunity, though! :)

It's showing up as 'Sold Out' now, which seems a pity. But I'd like to know what the proposals are. Are they listed anywhere?

She gave me a list of tests and I assume I need all of them. They're all possible by spot-test. Fortunately, I can afford them.

Thanks very much for all that info. I think it's clear that I can't arrange it - my GP ruled it out - but I wouldn't anyway feel safe.

This is what Medichecks, for instance, say about the quality of their tests. I don't know enough to know if that should reassure me: https://medichecks.com/pages/our-laboratories

Is there any data on the reliability of the private tests? I just googled but the first few pages of results seem to be swamped with advertising...

The GP told me that the phlebotomists aren't going out to patients who weren't already on their lists, because of Covid. Even if they were, I don't know that I'd want to be anywhere near one. I can't get to the surgery; it's far, far further than I could possibly walk and I daren't get in a car...

Thanks, Thriva. How did you decide that their results were trustworthy?