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Re: Flight cancelations and FUN
There have been published studies on false positives and false negatives with the different types of Covid tests. No test is perfect but from what I recall of the summaries of these studies, anywhere from a <% to maybe 10%-ish false negatives (depends on the stage of infection apparently), and false positives are much much… -
Re: Flight cancelations and FUN
I’ve read articles where they discussed this being the reason for a large number of false positives. (I suppose and overly accurate test is better than a less accurate one). But public policy is made on a test positivity rate that may be quite a bit off. The large number of people who test positive who never have any… -
Re: Flight cancelations and FUN
We're drifting in a dangerous direction here... HOWEVER (LOL), it was interesting to watch the athletes last year. A lot of them had positive tests followed by negative tests a couple days later. It did make me wonder about the number of false positives. The more interesting question to me is 2022-2023. You are still going… -
Re: Flight cancelations and FUN
Unlike previous phases of the pandemic, to me there seems to be a certain inevitability of getting infected now. The asymptomatic Covid positive rate in San Francisco, one of the most heavily vaccinated parts of the country, was approaching 10% earlier this week. By all accounts, Omicron is everywhere. The reasons one…
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