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Can you add a citation for the false positives number? The Abbott Labs test false positive rate was 0.02%, which seems totally acceptable to me https://www.st
by glaugh 6y ago
Can you add a citation for the false positives number?
The Abbott Labs test false positive rate was 0.02%, which seems totally acceptable to me
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/15/fda-says-abbotts-5-minute-covid-19-test-may-miss-infected-patients/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/15/fda-says-abbotts-5-minut...
On the other side of the equation, Mina’s point (see paper in my other comment) is that with frequent enough testing, the math of the epidemiology indicates that the sensitivity does not need to be terribly high to have a huge impact on the trajectory of the pandemic
Edit: I see now that you were talking about antibodies, not antigens, sorry
- wittyreference 6y agohttps://www.bd.com/documents/brochures/microbiology-solutions/IDS_469-WW-0420_BD_Veritor_SARS-CoV-2_BR_EN.pdf https://www.bd.com/documents/brochures/microbiology-solution... The low %positive agreement generates false negatives, though, not false positives. False positives, for this context, would be fine.