I Had to Take Five Antibody Tests to Get Results I Could Believe
“Dear Stephanie,” the email said. “Your results are complete. The test result is: Positive.”
After my fifth test for antibodies against the novel coronavirus, the lingering doubts were finally gone: I had been infected earlier this year. It’s the only time in my life I’ve been happy to be diagnosed with a disease—albeit one I’ve already recovered from. And while I first felt a sense of liberation and a lifting of anxiety, now I have new reservations about how my new status allows me to behave.