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It's been 12 days since they tested everyone. My understanding is that the results for serological tests are available right away, so I was expecting them to pu
by zephyrnh 6y ago
It's been 12 days since they tested everyone. My understanding is that the results for serological tests are available right away, so I was expecting them to publish results within a few days. Any idea why they haven't yet?
- usaar333 6y agoPerhaps they can't get statistical significance. You'd ballpark a 0.5% infection rate in the Bay Area going by deaths and current best guesses for IFR. Your false positive rate might exceed that. These tests are better done in highly infected areas like NYC.
- oldgradstudent 6y ago> current best guesses for IFR The entire point of the study is that we don't have good estimates of the IFR.
- usaar333 6y agoWe have randomized PCR studies and ships where everyone got tested. Yes, there is error there (false negatives), but there's an upper bound to how much there can be.
- xorfish 6y agoThey would need to collect data again now to get a better result. Otherwise the data is the same as on the day the test was made.
- merpnderp 6y agoProbably ended up with the same specificity problem that ruined the German antibody test. It's incredibly hard to test for just a single form of Coronavirus.
- ludwigschubert 6y agoLooks like it was just published today! https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.14.20062463v1 https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.14.20062463v1 Here’s the HN submission for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22900730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22900730