1/ Interesting news.

My husband Zach, who had what we're pretty sure was #COVID19 last March (which is when I was sick with it and went to the hospital), just tested positive for #COVID-specific T-cells, using the T-Detect Test of @AdaptiveBiotech.
2/ Zach was tested for #COVID19 antibodies at the same time as T-cells.

He tested NEGATIVE for antibodies, just as he did when he took the #antibody test in 11/20, some 8 months after he was sick.

So the T cells lasted far longer than the antibodies.
3/ Zach never had a positive PCR test for #COVID19, but this T-cell test confirms what we long suspected, based on how he got sick shortly after I did, with almost all the same symptoms (but not the shortness of breath that sent me to the hospital).

#COVID
5/ Good question. Zach took the T-Detect test BEFORE he got shot #1 of the @Pfizer vaccine. https://twitter.com/RuchiraDShah/status/1381715682027470849?s=20
6/ As for me, I also tested positive for #COVID19 T-Cells.

But this was no surprise, since (a) I had a near-fatal case of #COVID, and (b) I'm fully vaccinated.

If I did NOT have T-Cells after all that, we're in big trouble!

(Cc: @MCG2000, who asked.)
7/ If you're interested in the T-Detect Test, you can check it out on the @AdaptiveBiotech website (but note that it won't be very enlightening if you've already been #vaccinated ).

(Disclosure: my husband and I got free tests from Adaptive through a study.)
8/ Worth noting: https://twitter.com/ahandvanish/status/1381738360595742722?s=20
You can follow @DavidLat.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: