Officials stress it is important that testing be used to keep everyone safe.

But what it comes to the antibody test we've heard so much about it is important to know the facts, something I learned firsthand in a very heart stopping way.

Positive for Corona virus.

I've had it.

I have it right now.

It was not the result I expected when I took a cove in 19 antibody test.

I am infectious right now.

Okay, home.

So for my family and I took the test because we thought my college age daughter may have previously had Corona virus.

She became ill after attending Mardi Gras in New Orleans, which is now a covert 19 hot spot.

The antibody test consists of drawing a small amount of blood.

Sure enough, my daughter's test came back positive for the antibody, which means she had the Corona virus before.

But I was told my test showed I had the virus right then.

This is my daughter sample, and this is mine.

Middle line is the virus itself.

That's you.

Those results had me wiping down everything with alcohol and self quarantined in the guest room where I later got on the phone with my primary care doctor.

She was highly skeptical of my positive result and suggested I try to get a nasal swab test point again.

A nasal swab, which my physician says is the only way to determine if one has active virus.

They came right to my car window to administer the test.

Okay, you're done.

Wow!

For 2.5 days, I was on pins and needles.

Thank goodness the nasal swab came back negative.

I did not have Active Cove in 19.

In fact, the FDA specifically says it is not aware of an antibody test that has been validated for diagnosis of the active virus.

Another important point.

There are only four FDA approved tests for detecting antibodies, and mine was not one of them.

With so many non FDA approved tests available, that has the potential to be a big problem if testing is key to reopening society.

Having no sort of tests that where you don't and can't trust the results is worse than having no tests at all.

Kelly Rob Lusky is the director of infectious disease programs at the Association of public health laboratories.

The antibody test shows evidence that the virus was there.

It could have been there six months ago.

It could have been there three months ago.

It could have been there a month ago.

Um, it doesn't indicate active disease.

Dr.

Anthony Fauci, the country's top medical expert on Corona virus pandemic, says, Even if you do have the antibodies, that doesn't necessarily mean your immune.

There's an assumption, a reasonable assumption that when you haven't antibody that you will protect it against reinfection.

But that has not been proven for this particular virus.

To be honest, I feel a little bit foolish about this, and I am Onley sharing my story one to spare you the drama that we experience and, more importantly, to make sure that if you do get tested, you ask the right questions so you can be confident about the results.