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2020-07-22 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Flaw in Manufacturer's Testing System For Coronavirus Used by Labs Across the US Causing False Positives

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Posted by Frank G 2020-07-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 given the state’s recommendation to cohort nursing home residents who test positive for COVID-19.

A f*ck in the tests can happen, but what's the rationale for the above?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-22 00:21|| 2020-07-22 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Jeez, as if the data wasn't garbage enough already.

Posted by SteveS 2020-07-22 01:11|| 2020-07-22 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 ^That's why sites (e.g. worldometer) distinguish between positive tests and active cases (symptomatic).
Now: "Most estimates have put the number of undetected cases at several multiples of detected cases" (worldometer). Which implies that, by now, most of the population is infected. Which implies - albeit only in Eurocentric terms of conditional probability - that false positives don't matter very much.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-22 03:56|| 2020-07-22 03:56|| Front Page Top

#4 grom, the asymptomatic cases are the false positives.

Posted by daniel 2020-07-22 04:11|| 2020-07-22 04:11|| Front Page Top

#5 ^You know that, I know that (though I'd add "some people are naturally immune"*). But beware the wrath of the "covid skeptics".

*True for every known pathogen - due to the fact that the immune system (sort of) recapitulates Darwinian variation/selection process.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-22 04:18|| 2020-07-22 04:18|| Front Page Top

#6 "Some" being 80% of the population it seems...

Tragic that this lockdown mistake is being continued.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-22 04:42|| 2020-07-22 04:42|| Front Page Top

#7 I wish I had your precognitive powers, BP.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-22 05:05|| 2020-07-22 05:05|| Front Page Top

#8 It's easy when you can do maths, something it seems medics have forgotten.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-22 08:12|| 2020-07-22 08:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Good thing these tests aren't being used to justify state policy, outlaw certain businesses, and incarcerate people.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-07-22 17:07|| 2020-07-22 17:07|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ Snark O' The Day

Posted by Frank G 2020-07-22 18:32|| 2020-07-22 18:32|| Front Page Top

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