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PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. What specific tests?

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2020, 12:54 PM

May 2020

How accurate are they?

Not only did the FDA allow companies to market whatever the fuck they wanted to market as a test without bothering to check that any of them were even remotely worthwhile, the very best ones seem to have something like a 30% false positive and a 30% false negative. Which makes them only a little better than flipping a coin. Or flipping it for two out of three.

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Senator Kaine: We need over one million tests per day by fall. [View all] shockey80 May 2020 OP

They dont want to save lives, they want us gone. Eliot Rosewater May 2020 #1

4x increase needs a plan Midnightwalk May 2020 #2

and staffing lagomorph777 May 2020 #4

What specific tests? PoindexterOglethorpe May 2020 #3