A member asked:

Suppose i am immune to covid and develop antibodies, would the oraquick hiv test identify the covid antibodies and give a false hiv positive?

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Dr. Hunter Handsfield answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

No risk, no worry: The HIV and COVID antibodies, and tests for them, are completely independent of one another. Nneither one has any effect on the other. Therefore, having COVID-19 antibodies would not make your HIV test either falsely positive or falsely negative. Don't worry about it.

Answered 8/16/2020

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