While true, if the chance of a false positive is 1:100,000 and you’re doing 25k tests per day, you’ll get a couple per week. If you have suppressed the virus to the point where transmission is negligible, a moderate percentage of positives might be false.https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1323450859984809985 …
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So given your scenario of testing last September, we'd expect to see somewhere between 1-300 positive tests for every million tests run. Given the number of false +ves based on retests was only 1 or 2 in October in NSW, you'd expect towards the lower end of that bound
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