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1. Re: CORONAVIRUS HITS LEGEND

   

   Comment by BryceM · April 13, 2020 11:26AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   Be careful how you interpret anecdotal data about this virus. The tests that are done are not perfect and there are a bunch of different ways to test for it. Each of these tests have a certain false positive and false negative rate (as do most medical tests). In general, they work correctly but not always. One false…

2. Re: CORONAVIRUS HITS LEGEND

   

   Comment by CoinJunkie · April 19, 2020 6:30PM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   Thanks for posting the article. Here's the text directly below the statistics you quoted above: But with that ratio of false positives to true cases, a large number of the positive cases reported in the study — 50 out of 3320 tests — could be false positives, says Marm Kilpatrick, an infectious disease researcher at the…

3. Re: CORONAVIRUS HITS LEGEND

   

   Comment by yosclimber · April 19, 2020 9:38PM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   These are consistent with what I wrote. Did you have a different interpretation? The first paragraph is a simple proportion multiplication, an example of how the ratio is used to make the final computation. In the final computation, you do not use the raw number of test positives to create the infection %. Instead you…