Ontario saw 700 new cases Monday but the province's top doctor admits that 36% of them could be false positives. That and other context needed as most media only focus on case numbers. Read & RT #onpoli #COVID19Ontariohttps://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-big-covid-numbers-need-context …
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Now, unfortunately I'm not up to speed on Canada specifically, but if the labs are using the same test and procedures, you'd expect there to be very few false positives in the numbers
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From my understanding the protocol varies a bit from lab to lab, but generally I've been told that any result that comes back +ve after more than ~30 cycles is rerun to confirm, and most of them are discussed with the pathologist and referring Dr
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