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Are we sure this isn't a false positive?

• greendave 6y ago
  > To avoid any false positive result we have taken all the usual precautions and we also confirmed it by two different, techniques and staff. Sure? No. But taking their statement at face value, it does seem unlikely.
• wirrbel 6y ago
  Given the combination of a positive PCR test result, the symptoms and imaging I think there is strong evidence for an infection.
  • skwb 6y ago
    I completely agree. Pr(False Positive| positive COVID-19 symptoms and positive imaging results)... doesn't seem like a very high probability.
• hokkos 6y ago
  few chance of a false positive (another virus that match with the small sequence tested), but it could be cross contamination of samples.