Have 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: positivehttps://medium.com/@gidmk/most-positive-coronavirus-tests-are-true-positives-60c95fe54fec …
Disagree - that's a false positive if what you're using the test for is individual medicine. If we're using the test for public health, picking up a few people who are no longer infectious with high sensitivity is a trade-off with picking up all infectious people
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Picking up all infectious people isn't an option with PCR: too expensive, inconvenient, painful, and slow. Some will *avoid* PCR because they can't afford to miss 2 weeks of work. With $1 tests, more people get tested, FAST notice of shedding, shorter quarantine, less spreading.
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Do you expect that people won't avoid taking that kind of test or may inaccurately tell people they were negative when in fact positive if left to them?
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Teach me why "individual medicine" please?
Infected day 1, PCR+ at hour 28, RAPID+ and infectious at hour 32, RAPID- and not infectious day 8, PCR+ until day 30.
At which points during the 30 days does PCR get you something you need for IM, that RAPID doesn't? # of PCRs?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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