Coronavirus testing has been a hot-button issue since the beginning of the pandemic. First, there weren't enough coronavirus tests to go around. Now, a new issue has emerged—just how accurate the tests people are getting actually are. According to a July 17 study published in the International Journal of Geriatrics and Rehabilitation, 50 percent of nucleic acid coronavirus tests distributed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)provided inaccurate results.
The study's lead author, Sin Hang Lee, MD, director of Milford Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, found that the testing kits gave a 30 percent false-positive rate and a 20 percent false-negative rate.
To determine these false-positive and false-negative rates, the Connecticut State Department of Public Health Microbiology Laboratory provided Lee 20 tests, which were then re-tested using his own methodology, which examines samples on a cellular level, rather than just testing fluid with no cellular matter from potentially infected oral and nasal secretions.
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If so, then all of the data is trash
CDC= Confidence
Done
Casually
Damn it! They should have let Patton blow em' up. I could own a ski resort in Siberia now.
I'll bet they were made in South Korea.
How about the nurses who did an accuracy check by submitting unused tests, which all came back positive!
but it can live seven days on your mask
Another government agency that you cannot trust as far as you can spit.
Tests of all kinds have false rates. In the past I have had Drs prescribe antibiotics even if a strep test came back negative just because of the physical symptoms I was showing.
How many women have gotten fales false positive or negative results on pregnancy tests?
There us a degree of error in all things. Remember the old saying....the only things in life that are absolute are death and taxes! And more people attempt to escape at least one of those but nobody can escape the other.
50% of the world is coo coo
Adolph Hogan how accurate is the KOREAN test you spent $9 million MD tax dollars on? What / how much kick back did you / your wife get from this transaction that was 50% - 80% more than the American company offered you in their deal?
You stated that your wife brokered the deal so there had to be some type of compensation. You follow the Democrat agenda and we all know the Democrats get kick backs especially on deals like this.
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