Perhaps unsurprisingly for a blog called "lockdown skeptics", this piece makes basic mathematical and epidemiological mistakes. In fact, very few positive COVID-19 tests are falsehttps://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1307586325663698945 …
To be fair, that's coming from the context of NSW where the % positive is currently sitting at 0.07%. Even if lab contamination only happens in 1 test per 10,000, we'd have as many false positives as real ones here!
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That being said, virtually every positive is retested, so the *true* rate of false positives in the record is probably 0% or close to that
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