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MythArcana 7 points ago +7 / -0

How accurate are these damn tests?

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Barbs 6 points ago +7 / -1

They’re not sure. They keep testing positive on people who are asymptomatic, but that’s either the test is a false positive, or this virus can be spread by people who are completely unaware they have it, and have no symptoms. I hope it’s the former, because the latter is going to make it so much harder to control.

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Marshall 6 points ago +6 / -0

Last I heard, there is a 30% false positive rate. But that's not nearly as scary as the 30% false negative rate.