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Interesting, this seems much better than the "lateral-flow" tests that we've started using in the UK for mass community testing. Apparantly those are only detec
by noneeeed 6y ago
Interesting, this seems much better than the "lateral-flow" tests that we've started using in the UK for mass community testing. Apparantly those are only detecting about 50% of positive cases (not sure what the symptomatic/asymptomatic breakdown is).
90-95% sensitivity will be a real game changer.
- novok 6y agoThere is a math that you have to apply with the amount infected. Like a test that is %99 accurate for a disease that only happens %0.001 of the time will have high false negative or positive rate, which is somewhat unexpected result. More detail: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XTXWPQSEgoMkAupKt/an-intuitive-explanation-of-bayes-s-theorem https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XTXWPQSEgoMkAupKt/an-intuiti...