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In response to "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" by JackDawson

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.

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) May 10 '20, 15:01

At least that is my understanding. Again, maybe it's changed over the last couple of weeks, but I don't think those 3 are scaled to be widely available enough that everyone has access to just them and are not using other tests. That is my understanding. Hopefully it's changing.

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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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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.

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