In reality, people who are tested are at a vastly higher risk of infection than the general population, because the main reason for accessing a test is being symptomatic for disease. The true prevalence in this population is around 4-5%
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Moreover, this simplistic calculation doesn't account for retesting, which is common in positive but asymptomatic cases, or in negative but symptomatic cases Thus, it is likely that the false positive rate in the reported UK statistics is quite close to 0%
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These tests are not testing for the ppl with the disease Covid 19 they are testing for a string of RNA in ppl who are healthy
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