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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.o

• 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.