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The key takeaways: Antigen tests are trash, there is no such thing as a 15 minute rapid test for covid PCR tests cannot be relied on without specific controls

The key takeaways: Antigen tests are trash, there is no such thing as a 15 minute rapid test for covid PCR tests cannot be relied on without specific controls (a test X number of days into exposure, no subsequent exposure, multiday quarantine after the test regardless). PCR tests and can only help with statistics but not your personal assurance of avoiding covid Don't trust anyone that says they have a covid safe solution for their gathering. Only consider the prevalence of covid in the area (really, LA? really?) and your mitigation strategies like wearing a mask. Even a respected figure with a vaccine company has no idea what theyre talking about. The county of Kuau’i has a mandatory 3 day quarantine no matter what the result, or port of prior-entry. This is down from 10-day quarantine. They have 0.2 cases per 100k now alongside the significant deterrent from going there There are a lot of examples that can function as control groups

zby 6y ago
I don't know what happened with his antigen tests - but there is scientific backed data on their efficacy - and it is pretty good: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Comparison-of-seven-commercial-SARS-CoV-2-rapid-Corman-Haage/685da6c3c320128231679e51ab2f8a846cc0dd23 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Comparison-of-seven-co...
- esotericn 6y ago
  "Pretty good" isn't good enough for this sort of thing though. If you care about contracting coronavirus, if for you infection is a death sentence, then you need something daft like a 99.9999% certainty that people and things you interact with aren't carrying the virus, and that doesn't just include their nasal passages; it means them not having it on their hands, or on their clothes, or whatever else. In the real world, outside of these hyper corporate events, most people I know who aren't vulnerable just take basic measures because if we get the virus it'll probably be fine. But that's not good enough if you're selling snake oil.
  - zby 6y ago
    For everything you need a use case. You list those where antigen tests don't fit - but it does not mean they are trash.

zby 6y ago

I don't know what happened with his antigen tests - but there is scientific backed data on their efficacy - and it is pretty good: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Comparison-of-seven-commercial-SARS-CoV-2-rapid-Corman-Haage/685da6c3c320128231679e51ab2f8a846cc0dd23 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Comparison-of-seven-co...

esotericn 6y ago
"Pretty good" isn't good enough for this sort of thing though. If you care about contracting coronavirus, if for you infection is a death sentence, then you need something daft like a 99.9999% certainty that people and things you interact with aren't carrying the virus, and that doesn't just include their nasal passages; it means them not having it on their hands, or on their clothes, or whatever else. In the real world, outside of these hyper corporate events, most people I know who aren't vulnerable just take basic measures because if we get the virus it'll probably be fine. But that's not good enough if you're selling snake oil.
- zby 6y ago
  For everything you need a use case. You list those where antigen tests don't fit - but it does not mean they are trash.