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Britain’s health minister Matt Hancock says, according to The Guardian that the country can get to ease on the restrictions for people who get so-called immunpass.
This will be a blodprøvetest that can show whether you have developed antibodies against the virus. In practice, this means that one has undergone the disease.
Hancock says they are looking at the possibility of issuing papers that prove the immunity and makes that a part of the population can “get back to work as much as possible”.
For this to work, you need two things to be in place: That one actually becomes immune after having undergone skydommen (that can not be transmitted two times), and that the tests are good enough.
Right now the jobs the Norwegian authorities with this.
Think you are immune
” We are waiting on a kunnskapsoppsummering about this with immunity, what is published out there in the big world. There is much you do not know yet because this is so new, but with other koronavirus gain one immunity. Basically, we go out from that it is what you do with this, ” says Petter Elstrøm, a researcher at the Norwegian institute of public health.
WAITING: Petter Elstrøm, a researcher at the Norwegian institute of public health, says they can get the immunity tests within a short time.
Photo: Norwegian institute of public health
They await a response on this report this week, or early next week.
It has been reported that individuals who have been infected two times, but here, there are several possible sources of error, and there is not reached any conclusion on whether it is due to particularly weak immune system, or for example, error tests.
– In nature, there will always be the exception, points out Elstrøm.
another possibility that no one is immune is if the virus changes. This is the case, the flu.
Not far away
The other big question is the quality of the tests. He says this is not far away, and that testkapasiteten probably be easier to get up than virustesten.
– It is not far away. It stands about weeks rather than months, ” says Elstrøm.
– Who is first in line for these tests?
– There are not taken a position, but as I think about it, it is important, first and foremost in the health service, says Elstrøm.
He does not see any great value in issuing certificates, as Hanckock advocated, but that the test can be important to give good advice.
A immuntest could have also opened up parts of the business sector, so the british minister of health advocated for.
In Norway is the policy of the day that a person who has been sick or suspected sick, must be completely fresh for at least seven days before the person comes back on the job.
But many are not tested. Thus you can have people who believe they have had Covid-19 but have had something else entirely, and you can have people who are symptomfrie, but still have the disease.
Fear for voluntary infection in the Uk
If you are sure of immunity, so it can be of great importance for smitteverntiltak, believe Elstrøm.
– If one becomes ill again, you could for example rule out the possibility that it is the covid-19, ” he says.
In addition to the tests until now have been too bad, there have been fears in the Uk that people will want to become infected is to be able to be immune.
This is a horrible stupid idea. We do not know who is seriously ill. Although there are several older and sick, we don’t know why others can get very severe course. So this is dangerous, ” concludes Elstrøm.
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