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My workspace immediately retests if you get a positive. While you wait.
by BenjiWiebe 5y ago
My workspace immediately retests if you get a positive. While you wait.
- nanis 5y agoPCR or something else? If PCR, is the number of cycles pre-set or is that a choice variable?
- dtech 5y agoThat seems like a good way to miss infections (and get people back to work, which is probably the point). The tests seem to have a high false-negative rate. Assuming independence and 25% FN rate, a second test will miss an additional 20% of infections of all people tested.
- yarcob 5y agoSame at my kids school. Whenever they have a positive antibody test, they just do it again. I think that the antibody tests are sketchy in the first place, but if they don't even stick to the protocol and don't follow up positive antibody tests with PCR tests, it's almost pointless.