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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.
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.
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.
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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