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| Nevada health officials order nursing homes to STOP using rapid COVID-19 tests after finding 60% of positive results were false |
| 2020-10-09 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #8 How many "False Negatives"? That is the real killer problem. |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-10-09 18:42 |
| #7 False pos rate for the rapid test is lower than the PCR test. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2020-10-09 10:21 |
| #6 Watsonville is in Santa Cruz County California Latest ChiFlu stats for Santa Cruz CO: Population 273,213 Total ChiFlu cases 2,552 Total deaths attributed to ChiFlu: 19 yeah, that's right: 19 deaths in a population of 273,213. Not even one in 15,000. Not even close to a normal flu season |
| Posted by: Hupuling Cratch4472 2020-10-09 10:20 |
| #5 Complete fiasco |
| Posted by: Cheresh Angaiger6579 2020-10-09 09:55 |
| #4 Test more * false positives = Find more. Is the infection % rate of a truly random selection of people changing? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-10-09 08:23 |
| #3 "But..but...Mah Numberz!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-10-09 08:11 |
| #2 To be fair Nev."may" have gotten a bad batch like Atlanta did about 2 months ago. Where unused tests kits were sampled and found to produced False Positives. The Industry has had to acknowledge FALSE Positive issues ranging from 16% to 31%, depending of the lot and batch produced. Note: An estimated 14+ million of these quick detection tests were produced and a majority already used. So pick a ##% and apply it to the 7,528,313 that the CDC reported infected as of 10-08-20. 2.8% is the "claimed" overall mortality Rate out of the 7,528,313 "claimed" to be infected out of 342,000,000 in the USA as Oct.08th, 2020. So the odds work out to 0.0617345029239766% in our USA Population of 342,000,000, possibly dying from C-19. BTW: Cancer beats out C-19 ... 3 to 1 easily. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2020-10-09 06:55 |
| #1 COVID-19 outbreak at a California nursing home kills NINE and infects more than 60 residents and staff |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-10-09 05:52 |