If nothing else, the study was of *labs* not of *tests* so it doesn't actually make any comment on specificity at all
Sorry, I'm still not sure what you mean. Are you saying that every PCR should be confirmed with a culture?
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No. I am saying that if you are going to mass screen for COVID then first you need to know what the false positive rate is for testing in different situations. This includes running the test on other viruses to figure out the % positives for each of them. This hasn't been done
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Oh, that's definitely not true. In Australia it was done by the Doherty Institutehttps://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/post-market-validation-of-the-beijing-genomics-institute-bgi-sars-cov-2-real-time-pcr-platform …
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