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> And theoretically, the test would give a positive result on some bat corona viruses, but they do not affect humans. What if I have flu and that corona virus
by mkagenius 7y ago
> And theoretically, the test would give a positive result on some bat corona viruses, but they do not affect humans.
What if I have flu and that corona virus which do not affect humans. People will think I have COVID.
Edit:
The test developed was done against 75 people with various other diseases as listed below to find out the false positive rate. With the 75 samples (having listed diseases), the false positive rate was 0.
Clinical samples with known viruses Number of
samples tested in all three
assays
HCoV-HKU1 2
HCoV-OC43 5
HCoV-NL63 5
HCoV-229E 5
MERS-CoV 5
Influenza A (H1N1/09) 6
Influenza A (H3N2) 5
Influenza A(H5N1) 1
Influenza B 3
Rhinovirus/Enterovirus 3
Respiratory syncytial virus (A/B) 6
Parainfluenza 1 virus 3
Parainfluenza 2 virus 3
Parainfluenza 3 virus 3
Parainfluenza A or -B virus 5
Human metapneumovirus 3
Adenovirus 3
Human Bocavirus 3
Legionella spp. 3
Mycoplasma spp. 3
Total clinical samples 75
I hope we didn't any other major common virus, and also is 75 a big enough number to say that the false positive rate is definitely 0?
- acqq 7y ago> What if I have flu and that corona virus which do not affect humans. By definition, you can't have the virus which doesn't affect humans. The virus that causes Covid-19 is called SARS-CoV-2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr... 2 means it's only a second ever recognized such. The first caused the original SARS in 2002-2003.