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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

Sydney, New South Wales
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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Dec 2020

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    Also, again for the "casedemic" denialists/conspiracists: 222,000 tests, 103 positive results. If every result is a false positive (obviously untrue), then the FP rate in NSW is ~0.046%https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1342261124738084864 …

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    Health NerdVerified account @GidMK
    Ok, this is getting ridiculously impressive That's 3% of the entire state of New South Wales tested for COVID-19 in 7 days 👀👀👀 https://twitter.com/migga/status/1342259377701486594 …
    4:12 PM - 24 Dec 2020
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    • MeerkatinNZ Garf Arthur Ian Rogers Bernhard Unsöld Tom Andrews💙 Paul Ennis Edward Arthur Liz *Double Shot* Darvill 💉💉
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      2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Dec 2020

        Except, we've actually had no confirmed false positives this week (and many people are retested, so we'd know), which means that the TRUE false positive rate is MAXIMUM 0.00004% and probably lower than that Merry Christmas!

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Dec 2020

        "But what about CT cycles 🤪🤪🤪" This is simple maths, no reliance on anything but the basic numbers and long division 👍

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      2. Echo Screen‏ @madain_sari 24 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        So what's it called when you take the proportion of FP from the total amount of positives? I was under the impression that if say 50 of those 103 positives were FP then that would mean a 50% FP rate because half of all the positives are false positives

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Dec 2020
        Replying to @madain_sari

        Most people use the term false positive rate as a proxy for specificity, which technically is the ratio of false positives to true negatives + false positives

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