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Low prevalence, false positives complicate testing


cdemundo

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Shows what deep waters we are in. Key idea for me, with a low disease prevalence the false positives in the uninfected individuals would be huge and lots of people who were not immune would be thought to be so. Shows me how our "intelligent layman's opinions" can be very naive and wrong.

 

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/beware-of-antibody-based-covid-19-immunity-passports/?fbclid=IwAR0VCXBxeDekRAzV2w3BNJy2DTdNnfPm4-q_VxYP8P9KfW3smlV645vMB9k

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