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In response to "false positive rates are pretty high - I'm not ready to read much into these kinds of reports just yet. -- nm" by Reagen

I didn't think there were false positive, only false negative because of the type of test.

Posted by sycor Jun 25 '20, 08:15

I may be wrong.

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It does depend on the test, but because they're testing for the RNA of the virus, it doesn't distinguish between living and dead material -- (link) - Reagen Jun 25, 08:19

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