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Perhaps 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 fal
by usaar333 7y ago
Perhaps 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 7y ago> current best guesses for IFR The entire point of the study is that we don't have good estimates of the IFR.
- usaar333 7y 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.