In Clinic and At Home Private Blood Testing!
To book any of our private blood tests including COVID-19 Antibody or T Cell, or check out our suite of other tests for cardiovascular, hormone, thyroid, vitains and minerals, cancer, or immunology, please click below! You can come to us, or we can come to you!
COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Testing
Ichor is proud to be partnered with Timberlea Pharmacy to offer our COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Testing and Mayo Clinic Score Based Antibody Testing on location. Click below to book a rapid antigen test at Timberlea Pharmacy. The COVID-19 Rapid Antigen test results can be used for employment purposes as part of corporate regular screening programs, and are also US State Department compliant for travel to the USA.
Need a PCR Travel Test?
Ichor Fort Mac is an approved collection site for travel COVID-19 PCR testing throgh DynaLife Labs in Edmonton. You can book with DynaLife, pay for your test, and then select Ichor Fort McMurray to have your specimen collection completed. Your result will be provided by DynaLife to your DynaLife Portal once it is ready.
Book Travel PCR Test
Ichor utilizes Health Canada approved BTNX COVID-19 Rapid Response Antigen Tests at all our facilities. The swab that is completed is an anternior nasal swab, which is the front of the nose, not the uncomfortably deep nasalpharangeal swab. A Timberlea pharmacist will adminster the test and prepare your result while you wait, 15-20 minutes from start to finish.
Any questions about the test can be directed to Ichor's customer support team either on our website live chat plug in, by calling us at 1-844-424-6728, or by emailing support@ichorblood.ca
Test Your Vitamin D Levels With Ichor!
Ichor Blood Services is now providing test collection services for Vitamin D2 and D3 testing, utilizing the renowned Mayo Clinic Laboratories for analysis. Ichor is the first of its kind to offer testing from this highly reputable health clinic for Canadians.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When our body faces off against a virus our immune system creates antibodies to fight it. By testing for the antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2 (the official name for the coronavirus which causes the disease COVID-19) and finding them within a patient, we can determine if people have been infected with the disease and likely have built up antibodies against it, at least for a short period of time.
Unlike other tests that diagnose COVID-19 through either a throat or nasal swab by looking for genetic evidence of the virus, antibody testing requires serology (a blood test) to see if our body's immune system has developed antibodies after fighting off SARS-CoV-2. The wonderful part about antibodies is that each one is specific to the virus or bacteria that it was produced to fight, so we can single them out and determine whether or not a person has been infected with that specific virus. Antibodies also last a lot longer in our bodies than the genetic material of the virus, allowing for a much wider window to detect it.
Antibody testing for COVID-19 is important because it may help identify those individuals who have recovered from the virus. Those who have the antibodies for COVID-19 most likely have developed some sort of protection or immunity against reinfection, at least for a short period of time, allowing them to return to work or other activities safely. Because the antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 remain in the body for a much longer period of time than the genetic material of the virus itself, antibody testing is also a great tool for determining past infections. As we begin to shift to the next phase of this pandemic, antibody testing is also being looked at as a way to help return things to the way they were before the virus struck.
We collect specimens on behalf of several labs that offer a SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Test. In general, if your test result comes back negative, the negative result is reported with 99% certainty. If your test result is positive, a confirmatory test is then run. If your confirmatory test is positive, it will validate the presence of antibodies with a Positive Predictive Value of 99%.
No, the COVID-19 serology antibody test is only designed to determine a past infection or exposure to SARS-CoV-2. The antibodies that are created to fight off the virus usually appear around 7-14 days after contracting SARS-CoV-2. While it's possible that a serology antibody test could indicate a current infection, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing via a nasal or throat swab that looks for the genetic material of the virus is currently the best way to identify active SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Results will be emailed to you by the lab that ran your tests.