04-15-2021, 11:18 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56750460
Buried at the bottom of the BBC page: "Covid: 82% of positive rapid tests 'were correct' - BBC News"
Framed as if this is really good by the BBC, but it means that out of 16,000 positive tests of children over 3,000 were actually negative, almost 1 in 5. As the prevalence of COVID decreases this proportion of false positives will be higher.
As I said before, this is exactly why mass testing just won't work.
Symptomatic testing? Absolutely, makes perfect sense. Mass testing? definitely not
Buried at the bottom of the BBC page: "Covid: 82% of positive rapid tests 'were correct' - BBC News"
Framed as if this is really good by the BBC, but it means that out of 16,000 positive tests of children over 3,000 were actually negative, almost 1 in 5. As the prevalence of COVID decreases this proportion of false positives will be higher.
As I said before, this is exactly why mass testing just won't work.
Symptomatic testing? Absolutely, makes perfect sense. Mass testing? definitely not