Who ever is advising @MattHancock does not know what a false positive is. It is the percentage of tests done that will be positive. At 1% it would mean half of current cases have been misdiagnosed.https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1306916231170191361 …
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As a lay person in all this I am becoming confused, you say one thing and an epidemiologist says the opposite.https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1308008138260455425?s=20 …
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Health NerdVerified account @GidMKHave you read that 90% of COVID-19 tests are false positives? Turns out, that's total nonsense. False positives are very rare, most positives are just that: positive https://medium.com/@gidmk/most-positive-coronavirus-tests-are-true-positives-60c95fe54fec …Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I'm afraid there's no justification for him claiming the false positive rate is 1 in 1000.
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I cited my source - the ONS. NSW Health gives similar statistics. Actually, the current maximum false positive rate in NSW is less than 1 in 1,000, but I used a conservative value
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