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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 21 Sep 2020

    My newest piece explains why it's wrong to say that 90% of COVID-19 tests are false positives The real number is closer to 0%https://medium.com/@gidmk/most-positive-coronavirus-tests-are-true-positives-60c95fe54fec …

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      2. Captain Science PhD‏ @_captainscience 21 Sep 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        I bet the false negative rate is quite high for self administered swabs

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      3. Melissa‏ @Melissa2664 21 Sep 2020
        Replying to @_captainscience @GidMK

        I don’t think so. My son is at college and had to self administer a test. He didn’t get enough sample from his nose, and the test did not come back negative..it came back inconclusive. So that tells me that a false negative would not be as common as you may think.

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      2. Katy McConkey‏ @KatyMcconkey 21 Sep 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Thank you! This ridiculous "90% false positive" is becoming Twitter orthodoxy!

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      1. Brussels cyclo-pedestrian‏ @bXLpedestrian 21 Sep 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        "closer to 0%" is a massive understatement - that could imply 44%. As the article itself makes clear, it's not just closER to zero, it's actually close to zero.

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      2. Ian Sharp-Smith‏ @Iansharpsmithy 22 Sep 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        "The number of people who are sick with COVID-19 is increasing in many places in the world — particularly the UK" Really? It's less than 200 a day on a population of 66 Mil. Which works out at 6 hospitals per patient.

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      1. Juan José Manclús‏ @jmanclus60 23 Sep 2020
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        I fully agree in terms that PCR positive means detection of viral RNA, regardless of whether it is infective or not. But in terms of infectiveness, there are PCR + (>10-15 days after symptoms onset) which are very probably non-infectious.

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