You’ll probably already be aware that there are two types of COVID-19 Diagnostic Test:
This is the test that tells you if you currently have the virus. These tests are now widely available in the Community, and via GPs and 111.
We can now supply affordable COVID-19 *DUAL* IgM/IgG ANTIBODY TESTS to people who wish to know if they have had the novel, pandemic coronavirus. This requires a licensed-UK-doctor’s referral letter which Dr Alex can provide. The test has FDA EUA approval, is CE-marked in the UK, has been evaluated by Public Health England, and is UK Government-endorsed. For more information, please see below.
You can see all the laboratory tests for COVID-19 Antibodies that have been evaluated by PHE here.
Our selected test is ROCHE’s ‘Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology assay’ and we have chosen it because of its sensitivity and specificity, plus also because it is intended for the detection of IgM and IgG antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in human serum and plasma. This means that our test will pick up the very first antibodies that are produced (IgM) AND the subsequent ones (IgG) which will endure longer.
This, in turn, means that our test is most sensitive at picking up the fact that you were recently infected (IgM – with accuracy increasing as the interval from infection increases from a few days to 14 days), AND that you had it ‘a while’ before (the exact period for which the IgG antibodies remain in the blood differ from individual to individual, with added science emerging now).
Please see further data below. Or download the full documentation.
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