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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 Dec 2020

    Some more numbers from Australia for the "casedemic" conspiracists out there We ran 135,000 tests this week in NSW, with 93 positives. That's a MAXIMUM false positive rate of 0.069%

    8:09 PM - 21 Dec 2020
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      1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 22 Dec 2020

        For those people commenting "but what about Ct counts?" I suggest you read this articlehttps://virologydownunder.com/the-false-positive-pcr-problem-is-not-a-problem/ …

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      2. tetrakis[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borate‏ @betaturn 21 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Source?

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      3. o rly?‏ @Reasonableques3 21 Dec 2020
        Replying to @betaturn @GidMK

        Source? Go to @nswhealth and do some adding

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      2. Marco Piani‏ @Marco_Piani 21 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        I afraid that, similarly to the (ab)use of the word "lockdown", people are calling "false-positive tests" many different things, including the case where one has been infected in the past but it is not infectious anymore

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Dec 2020
        Replying to @Marco_Piani @GidMK

        I also love how people who had no experience with PCR pre-pandemic think they’re experts now and arrogantly lecture those of us who’ve done thousands upon thousands of PCR reactions on Ct thresholds.😂

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      1. Balgor‏ @Balgor11 21 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        They’ll just chalk it up to more government lies. I know several that still believe there are no excess deaths in US and the CDC numbers are all lies.

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      2. David Riddel  😷 💉 💉Az‏ @davidriddel 21 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK @medichulston

        I thought the current ‘conspiracy’ (seemingly by out-of-staters) is a mention on the NSW Health site that the testing capacity is 15,000 per day, and hence the last two days of large testing were only swabs taken, and not actually tests... Conspiracy theorists clutching...

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      3. Beck JoinYourUnion  🐀 💧‏ @RebeccaHurst19 22 Dec 2020
        Replying to @davidriddel @GidMK @medichulston

        That’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s a real question. IF the impressive number of tests being taken exceed the capacity to process then there is a backlog, with more (potential) +ve cases yet to show up in the count. People are nervous, looking for answers. #itsnotaconspiracy

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      1. Vix B  💙 👩‍🔬 🔬 🧪 🧫 ⚗️‏ @vixb 21 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        I love quoting these kind of figures to those who throw about 'PCR is a bad test because at least 90% of positives are false' 😁🤔 mmmmmhhhmmm

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      2. Andreas Backhaus‏ @AndreasShrugged 21 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Would we have to add the potential aundetected false negatives to the true number of infections?

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      3. Evan Blecher‏ @evanblecher 22 Dec 2020
        Replying to @AndreasShrugged @GidMK

        A point I’ve been making to the casedemicists ... that even if there are false positives, they’re likely smaller than the false negatives, and false negatives are more “costly” than false positives. It’s the inherent trade off in any test.

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