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In response to "Here's another. -- (link)" by pmb

Yeah...that article says that there are three antibody tests— as of three weeks ago — that did not delivery false positives over 99pct of the time.

Posted by JackDawson (aka dawson) May 10 '20, 14:26

The scary omg is the escalator gonna kill meheadline isn’t the news

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Yes, but there are 14 tests on the market. Those 3 aren't the only ones being used. Also, even those 3 gave false negatives at least 10% of the time - pmb May 10, 14:53 7
- These are anti body tests. Undercounting just means people will not know they’re immune which is a problem that leads to more safety not less - JackDawson May 10, 14:57 6
  - You're ignoring the other 11 tests that exist. It's great that there are accurate ones. Those are not the only ones being used at this point. - pmb May 10, 15:01 5
    - I’m not ignoring them and I’m not saying the effective ones are available widely. All I’m saying is that the tests that do work suggest that the - JackDawson May 10, 17:36 2
      - Who was disputing that? -- nm - pmb May 10, 18:07
      - sort of kind of? you can model all of this. large-scale studies in places where they're estimated to be getting almost all symptomatic cases - mafic May 10, 18:07
    - On the flip side, the first thing that I've found hopeful in a while was a Dr. on George Stephonopolous' show today who expects to begin clinical - pmb May 10, 15:13 1
      - nice -- nm - mud May 10, 15:19

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