Physicians Quality Care - 1 patient tests positive for COVID-19

Physicians Quality Care – 1 patient tests positive for COVID-19

Another Madison County resident tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday as Physicians Quality Care received more results from its testing of patients for the coronavirus. Out of the 52 positive test results PQC has received, 33 now are Madison County residents.

PQC has been testing concerned patients for COVID-19 in its secure COVID-19 Clinic on Pleasant Plains Extended in Jackson since March 18.

On Monday, PQC started offering specific antibody testing for COVID-19 in its urgent care clinics in Jackson and Milan. Through Thursday night, 346 people were tested for IgG antibodies to COVID-19.

Physicians Quality Care, in partnership with LabCorp, a nationally accredited testing laboratory, is offering COVID-19 antibody tests in accordance with the public health emergency guidance issued by the FDA. On April 17, in an FDA-issued Fact Sheet, the FDA gave Emergency Use Authorizations for COVID-19 tests, including Sars-CoV-2 serological or antibody tests.

IgG antibodies are your immune system’s response to fighting off the presence of a virus, and the FDA has released the following statement: “Experience with other viruses suggests that individuals whose blood contains antibodies associated with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection – provided they are recovered and not currently infected with the virus – may be able to resume work and other daily activities in society.”

“The data we are getting is reliable,” said Dr. Jimmy Hoppers, CEO of Physicians Quality Care, “It is showing whether someone has developed antibodies (or markers) for the coronavirus. The answers to what does it mean to have antibodies for COVID-19 will come as we continue to learn more about this specific virus. However, we do know that the presence of antibodies to other diseases caused by a virus – measles, mumps, flu, chicken pox – confers a much lower risk of getting the disease or spreading it to others.”

For more information call 731-984-8400, or visit physiciansqualitycare.com. PQC in Jackson is open 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week.

Telemedicine is available during those hours. Because all COVID-19-concerned patients are directed to the Jackson location’s secure COVID-19 clinic, PQC in Milan has new hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.