This might be a bit blunt but I am not jesting - an article about disease testing that does not contain the words "false positive" and "false negative" in some

This might be a bit blunt but I am not jesting - an article about disease testing that does not contain the words "false positive" and "false negative" in some form is literally not worth reading. Even decent antibodies tests can have 10% false positive rates (bodysphere), and lots of those tests have dodgy provenance and 20% false positive is not out of the question. Here's a better article, thou still not great (paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-antibodies-test-ny.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-anti... The closest they come to discussing the errors is to acknowledge there might be some: State officials said the test had been calibrated to err on the side of producing false negatives — to miss some who may have antibodies — rather than false positives, which would suggest a person had coronavirus antibodies when they did not. Not very informative, I know. A word of caution from the NYC health officials: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/han/alert/2020/covid-19-status-of-serologic-testing.pdf https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/han/alert/2020...