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Prof. Drosten who developed the test says that cannot happen in practice. One would get a false positive result with SARS-1 (de facto extinct) and related coron
by bmn__ 7y ago
Prof. Drosten who developed the test says that cannot happen in practice. One would get a false positive result with SARS-1 (de facto extinct) and related coronavirus strains in Asian bats (that have not crossed into humans).
Source: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/coronaskript132.pdf#3 https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/coronaskript132.pdf#3
- shawabawa3 7y ago> Prof. Drosten who developed the test says that cannot happen in practice. Obviously not true False positives are always possible in practice even if they aren't possible in theory Get a bunch of tired lab techs running tests 24/7 and one of them will accidentally write down the wrong result at some point
- cycomanic 7y agoI would not consider that a false positive in the test, maybe in the procedure, but that's quite different. Moreover it is statistically irrelevant, that would maybe account for 1%, but only if they would only note false positives.