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Old 11-14-2020, 06:24 PM
 
Location: Vallejo
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The rapid test does seem to be unreliable.

70% accurate, from what I can tell.

And I don't think I've ever seen lab results with a lot of false POSITIVES before - usually the failure is false negatives, but this test seems to have both.

It's a pain to have to wait for the 3 day test, but that one seems accurate.
It's nice to be the elite. For us mere normals it takes a lot longer than three days.
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Old 11-14-2020, 06:32 PM
 
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Yet, these false positive results get reported and influence public policy.
More likely Musk had 2 false negatives. The instant tests are known to have lots of false negatives. They aren't sensitive enough to catch a lot of positive cases during the first 5 days or so that someone has Covid. Lots of actual positives get missed with these tests.

https://khn.org/news/abbott-rapid-te...ts-under-fire/

multiple academic studies showing higher “false negative” rates from the Abbott device, including one from New York University researchers who found it missed close to half of the positive samples detected by a rival company’s test.

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Old 11-15-2020, 07:13 PM
 
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Musk is right. It's a plandemic.

Musk is just one example of one person taking multiple tests but all are reported as separate cases. Just remember that.

There was a lab earlier this year that had every single test as positive and turned out to be wrong.

Follow the money. Who benefits from positive tests aka cases?
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Old 11-15-2020, 07:22 PM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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Must be a Dominion Covid Testing Machine.
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Old 11-15-2020, 07:28 PM
 
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test is totally friggin 100% worthless.......trust the scientists they say.....why don't you believe in science they say

because they f=in lie through their teeth all the time
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Old 11-15-2020, 07:32 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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Musk says a lot of things. He said the virus would be gone by last spring, so I don't know why he's even taking a test.
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Old 11-15-2020, 07:32 PM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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For as smart as he is, i would think he would know that the antigen tests are not accurate, and this is no secret, everyone knows this.
So why are they using them?

That's like a car lot saying, "You all know none of our cars actually run." And then everybody buys them anyway. Actually, that sounds about right in this country at this point.
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