Hey Jolly
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What’s the false positive rate on a Covid-19 PCR test?
If you don’t know, what’s your best guess.
What’s the false positive rate on a Covid-19 PCR test?
If you don’t know, what’s your best guess.
rt-PCR is not my forte. I do know that false positives do exist, and can either be inherit to the test or can result from cross contamination. I also know that false negatives can exist due to collection errors or a viral load below cut-off.
Taking a SWAG (and I do mean a SWAG!) I would think the test would be set up to produce less false negatives. If so, that means false positives will bump up....So my stupid stab would be in the 5% or better range...
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