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This is interesting. I recently had a throat swab test after a week of extreme fatigue, but at no time did they indicate that the negative result was anything b
by mmastrac 6y ago
This is interesting. I recently had a throat swab test after a week of extreme fatigue, but at no time did they indicate that the negative result was anything but certain. I had imagined _some_ false negative rate, but not this high.
- latchkey 6y agoThis is why I laugh when people quote the infection numbers. It is potentially up to 30% wrong or heck, even more... nobody knows... but there is also other reasons, like inaccurate deduplication when people get multiple rounds of tests because of the high false negative rate. Oh and because it is false negative, it is worse than you think, not better.
- icebraining 6y agoIn my country they do two tests for that reason.