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THE WORLD’S ‘BEST’ ANTIBODY TEST
with
THE EASIEST HOME DRAW KIT SYSTEM
and
MEANINGFUL INDIVIDUAL ONGOING CLINICAL SUPPORT:

UNIQUELY SUPPORTED RESULTS
WITH AN INDIVIDUAL WRITTEN REPORT
and
WE KEEP OUR PATIENTS INFORMED OF RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS THAT AFFECT THEIR OWN SITUATION

COVID-19 DIAGNOSTIC TESTS

OK – so most of you who are interested in knowing your status for COVID-19, will 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. Up until recently these tests were reserved for people who were admitted to hospital with symptoms of COVID-19. Lately the availability of these tests have been extended to healthcare professionals, including carers, and to other persons with symptoms in the community. For full guidance on who can currently be tested by the NHS to see if they have COVID, please click here.

We can now supply affordable COVID-19 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 across the EU, has been evaluated by Public Health England, and is UK Government-endorsed. For more information, please see below.

This test is for people who want to know if they have had a COVID-19 INFECTION ALREADY. It is called a ‘past exposure’ test, but it is sufficiently sensitive as to be able to detect antibodies that show that you have had an infection, after just 14 days from your first symptoms (if you had symptoms).

So at any time from 2 weeks onwards, you can use this test to see if you have had COVID-19. UPTO VIRTUALLY 100% SPECIFICITY. UPTO 100% SENSITIVITY (depending on time-since-infection & individual factors – this means you need careful clinical guidance & oversight to understand your results, which we uniquely provide. Please see below).

***WE ARE THE ONLY UK CLINIC PROVIDING A PROPER CLINICALLY-APPRAISED TEST RESULT, WITH A WRITTEN REPORT***

AND  WE PROVIDE ONGOING CLINICAL SUPPORT & UPDATES, TO YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL, SO THAT YOU GET MORE & MORE VALUE FROM YOUR RESULT AS THE COVID-19 RESEARCH BASE GROWS

NO INFECTION TESTS ARE RELIABLE WITHOUT A CAREFULLY APPRAISED CLINICAL CONTEXT. IT’S 101 IMMUNOLOGY/VIROLOGY/PUBLIC HEALTH.

All other home-draw tests are being sold as ‘products’, not as a ‘service’ – this means they are doctor-‘nodded’ (as just ‘positive’ or ‘negative’).

We also provide the option for you to receive your ‘topline’ result ahead of the Clinical Report – to say simply whether it is positive or negative. This is available within 24-36 hours of us receiving your sample back at our lab in London.

To book your COVID-19 ANTIBODY TEST click here.
If you are a KEY WORKER, please book your COVID-19 ANTIBODY TEST here.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ehf2.12633

KEY INFORMATION ON OUR COVID-19 ANTIBODY TEST

THE WORLD’S ‘BEST’ COVID-19 AB TEST:

QUALITY-ASSURED, RELIABLE & INDEPENDENTLY-VERIFIED

Abbott Architect SARS-CoV-2 IgG

Developer: Abbott
Test: Architect SARS-CoV-2 IgG
Technology: High Throughput ELISA

CE-MARKED ACROSS THE EU (and here for venesection)

PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND APPROVED

FDA EUA APPROVED – in partnership with NIH, CDC, and BARDA,

INDEPENDENTLY ASSESSED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE – Department of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division & Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, Seattle.

PUBLISHED IN THE INTERNATIONALLY-REKNOWNED JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY 

*** PLEASE NOTE: After approving the finger-prick collection method for these tests, the MHRA then advised just a few days later, that they would be reviewing the COVID-19 Antibody Tests that PHE have already tested, to ensure that the finger-prick collection method retains the accuracy of the venesection-collection method.

Therefore this test is CE-marked in the UK by the MHRA for venesection samples only. However samples obtained by self-collection have been verified by the laboratory as performing within the same performance criteria as those taken by venesection and they conduct ongoing assessment to ensure that remains so. ***

​OVERALL RESULTS (MANUFACTURER):

.. Performance Measure   Estimate of Performance     95% Confidence Interval
.. Sensitivity (PPA)   100% (88/88)   (95.8%; 100%)
.. Specificity (NPA)   99.6% (1066/1070)   (99.0%; 99.9%)


Abbott Assessment USA: ​You can download more information HERE

Public Health England Evaluation: is more complicated (& shows higher specificity at 100%, but lower sensitivity, depending on time-lag from infection, approx 93%) and can be found HERE.
The Abbott Test outperformed the Roche test in PHE assessment.

Made available first in the UK to our main diagnostic LABORATORY – THE DOCTORS’ LABORATORY – one of the first laboratories in Europe able to offer this test, also being used by the NHS to test frontline workers.

TDL is the largest independent doctors’ laboratory in the UK – established and running with an impeccable reputation, since 1987.

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COMBINED WITH DR ALEX’S SPECIALIST EXPERTISE, WITH A WRITTEN REPORT & ONGOING INDIVIDUAL UPDATES

& OUR EASY-TO-USE HOME-DRAW  SYSTEM:

SIMPLE SAMPLE HOME COLLECTION FOR YOUR SAFETY & COMFORT

WE HAVE COMBINED THE WORLD’S MOST ACCURATE COVID-19 ANTIBODY TESTING SYSTEM WITH OUR UK LABORATORY’S HOME COLLECTION KIT – to create the best & easiest test that is available to date.

You collect a sample very easily from the comfort & safety of your own home.

This involves a fast pin-prick test – suitable also for children.

You will receive:

1. Blood collection tube & protective tube container

2. Lancets x 3

3. Doctor’s Request Form (provided by Dr Alex)

4. Instructions with pictures

5. Biohazard plastic bag (returned to the lab for safe disposal)

6. Prepaid tracked return envelope.

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WHAT HAPPENS AFTER I BOOK MY TEST?

Very quickly after you purchase your test, we will have it on its way to you.

Currently we are mostly using couriers – covering the whole of the UK & The Republic of Ireland, & the rest of the EU. UK Shipping is included in the fee. EU outbound shipping is also included.

When you receive your test kit you will find the instructions and all the materials you need. If this is your first time, please follow the easy-to-work-through information carefully. And here is the link to the video once again.

You take your sample. Then you simply package up the sample with Dr Alex’s Referral Form, and pop the pre-paid envelope in the post. We process your sample within 24-36 hours of its arrival back at our lab in London.

Then Dr Alex reviews your result, and sends this to you via our secure portal, along with an explanation as to what it ‘says’. A proper explanation – so that you can make your decisions on how best to protect yourself (& others) – you making an Individually-Informed & Responsible Exit Strategy, within the government guidelines provided.

It’s that easy.

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MORE UNDERSTANDING ABOUT WHY YOU NEED THE RELIABILITY OF THE COVID-19 ANTIBODY TEST WE OFFER

Because the availability of an antibody test is so vital, many inaccurate – dangerously unreliable – cheaply-made tests were sold to people without proper test-validation. Reliable tests take time to develop and validate. We withheld offering any tests until now, and are very pleased to be able to offer you a test with known, assured quality, provided and processed by a leading, and outstanding, quality-assured & medically-led, UK laboratory (who we have worked with for 20 years).

Our test is 100% SPECIFIC – which means that you will not get a positive result if you have not had COVID-19.

There is a 100% SENSITIVITY at just 17 days after you have been exposed to the infection (& caught it). This means that we will pick up if you have had the virus if you take the test more than 17 days after first getting infected. Most other tests are working off 21 day readings.

And it is > 97.5% SENSITIVE at just 14 days – which means that you have more than a 97.5% probability of being found to be positive for COVID-19 IgG antibodies, if you indeed have IgG antibodies, at 14 days. Or put differently, if you get a negative result, there is only a 2.5% chance that you have not in fact had the virus.

The issue of COVID-19 antibody testing is of paramount importance to individuals, and to the country as a whole. Any meaningful strategy for safe, or thought-to-be-safe, exit from lockdown and/or safeguarding measures, to whatever extent, requires us to know whether we are immune or not.

This test only tells us at this time if you have had an infection with this virus – we don’t know as yet if having the antibodies provides ‘protective immunity’ (ie if, having had the infection once, this means you can’t get it again – because you are protected – or that you can’t get it again for a given period of time – if it transpires that the infection confers temporary protective immunity).

As time passes, the body of science continues to grow, and we will be able to tell if there is protective immunity to COVID-19, or temporary protective immunity. And you having had the test now, you will be in a position to back-estimate how immune you are likely to be to further/future infection, having ascertained when you most probably definitely got infected.

***These tests are suitable for ALL AGES – including Children. Many parents are concerned for their kids to undertake these tests before returning to school.***

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SO WHAT DOES THE TEST MEASURE & WHAT DOES THE RESULT ‘SAY’?

The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Antibody Test measures a type of antibody (part of the immune response) called IgG, which appears in an individual’s blood shortly after infection – especially-formed to tackle that specific infection. By detecting those very specific IgG molecules in your blood, we know that you have had that specific infection (COVID-19).

An individual’s immune system reacts to the SARS-CoV-2 infection by producing antibodies from a few days to 2 weeks after the onset of symptoms. IgG antibodies are produced after the very first antibodies are produced (called IgM), and there is just enough IgG at 14 days for our sensitive test to detect them. Indeed it can be assumed that after 20 days there is a higher level of sensitivity (possibly approaching 100% – but we are not stating that), because that is when the ‘titres’ of IgG are highest, usually, after the individual’s first infection with the virus. IgM levels drop soon after infection, but IgG will endure longer. If you are interested you can see this example article for more information on COVID-19 ‘seroconversion’ (development of antibodies).

This is important also, because at 14 days the viral ‘RNA’ is no longer detectable – and it’s the RNA that is ‘looked for’ in the Antigen Test that most people who have had tests, have had so far to see if they currently have the infection. After 14 days you can’t reliably test (Antigen Test) to see if you still have the virus, but now you can test to see if you have had the infection with COVID-19 (using the Antibody Test we are offering here).

Most patients who recover from coronavirus have been found to produce antibodies. However it is not yet known if an individual with a positive result – that is, showing presence of IgG levels following being infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) – will be protected, either fully or partially, from future infection, or for how long protective immunity may last. That is because not enough time has elapsed as yet for us to have that information reliably.

But by doing the test now you will know if you have had it. Immunity to the virus is more probable in the first months after infection (although that cannot be guaranteed), so the result may provide you with some measure of risk. And once we know how long any protective immunity lasts, you will also be aware of what was the likely/approximate start of the period of any immunity, for you (a bit like having the dates on a vet’s record of when your dog had a vaccine).

Any questions? We’re here to help!

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