This is undoubtedly the health pass that we talk about the least. The one that can be issued to you after a serological test, understand who is evaluating your antibody level to Covid. Launched almost a month ago, on November 16, this Covid certificate with a validity of three months, renewable, is a Swiss specificity not valid outside our borders. Despite this drawback, he met with great success in the Jura. For the past month, Dr Risch’s laboratory in Courroux, which processes most of the Jura requests, has been overwhelmed by requests.
A way to get a pass without going through the vaccination box
He performs up to 200 blood tests per week to patients who hope to obtain the famous sesame which makes them enter the caste of the “cured” and the nails of the famous “2G”. Its success therefore implies that you have been in contact with the virus. A few weeks ago, “it was mainly the vaccinated who came to find out if the vaccination had been beneficial. Requests now come mainly from people interested in the Covid Certificate ”, notes Professor Lorenz Risch, group medical chief. According to our findings, it is mainly people who are cured who have not obtained the certificate (if their disease has been revealed by a rapid test and not a PCR test for example), but also people who “give it a go” to escape vaccination.
The Jura Hospital can now meet the demand
You get the certificate if your level is greater than 1 BAU (antibody unit) per ml of blood. A cut-off value far from universal which can vary greatly depending on the format of the test which itself depends on the laboratory. This minimum rate may also vary depending on the country, the Risch laboratories following in this case the recommendations of the Swiss Society of Microbiology to set this value. According to Professor Lorenz Risch, “around 60% of the test results have so far given rise to a certificate of cure subsequently issued by the FOPH”. In order to spread the demand, the canton of Jura has also asked the Jura Hospital laboratory so that it can also perform this type of test. The HJU has been able to respond to requests since this week. / jpi
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