The impact of false positives in Covid testing

Sep 26, 2020

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(Updated 30 Sept).

There has been much recent debate - and controversy - about the impact of false positives in Covid testing. As I showed in this video: if the current rate of infection is 1 in 200 (i.e. 1 in every 200 people is currently infected with the virus) and if a person is selected at random to be tested then, if that person tests positive, th…

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