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  • GDS
    GDS Member Posts: 1,470
    This sentence from a NY Times article caught my eye. Can someone smarter than I am confirm if this is correct? I thought a false positive percentage was the percentage of tests falsely positive compared to the total positives from the test. This quote seems to indicate a false positive percentage is actually based on the total tests administered.

    When the proportion of people exposed is that low, the tests’ false positive rate — signaling antibodies where there are none — can limit the tests’ utility.

    Even Cellex’s F.D.A.-authorized test has a false positive rate of about 5 percent. That is still a significant margin of error: In a community where 5 percent of people have had the virus, Dr. Osterholm said, there would be as many false positives as true ones.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781

    Gladstone said:

    Coronavirus antibody testing finds Bay Area infections may be 85 times higher than reported: researchers

    https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-antibody-testing-finds-bay-area-infections-85-times-higher-reported-researchers

    Further further

    Several colleagues and I in SF were under the weather with fluish symptoms in January. The coughing and chest wheezing (you could hear the wheezing when I breathed normally) were so bad I went to the doctors, convinced I had pneumonia. X-Rays were negative, I was just told it was a very bad flu bug. I'm the guy who never took a sick day once in my life and rarely get sick in general. I am pretty convinced it is already well spread around here.
    #meetoo
    #metoo. Cough. Chest rattle. No upper respiratory issues. Still had my super bowl party. Went to work every day. Actually spent three days with 4 people from China a week before I got sick.
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,056 Standard Supporter
    GDS said:

    This sentence from a NY Times article caught my eye. Can someone smarter than I am confirm if this is correct? I thought a false positive percentage was the percentage of tests falsely positive compared to the total positives from the test. This quote seems to indicate a false positive percentage is actually based on the total tests administered.

    When the proportion of people exposed is that low, the tests’ false positive rate — signaling antibodies where there are none — can limit the tests’ utility.

    Even Cellex’s F.D.A.-authorized test has a false positive rate of about 5 percent. That is still a significant margin of error: In a community where 5 percent of people have had the virus, Dr. Osterholm said, there would be as many false positives as true ones.

    Another worthless post from a worthless lying MSM parrot POS. Almost 7 months and counting, ya lying pedophile. Show me those Tulsi words, anytime, anyway, anywhere. Liar.
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,056 Standard Supporter
    edited April 2020
    Gladstone said:

    Gladstone said:

    Coronavirus antibody testing finds Bay Area infections may be 85 times higher than reported: researchers

    https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-antibody-testing-finds-bay-area-infections-85-times-higher-reported-researchers

    Further further

    Several colleagues and I in SF were under the weather with fluish symptoms in January. The coughing and chest wheezing (you could hear the wheezing when I breathed normally) were so bad I went to the doctors, convinced I had pneumonia. X-Rays were negative, I was just told it was a very bad flu bug. I'm the guy who never took a sick day once in my life and rarely get sick in general. I am pretty convinced it is already well spread around here.
    Antibody results came back positive today for me fyi


    Time to do the right thing for your country, Gladstone.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    @Gladstone how long were you sick?
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,056 Standard Supporter

    @Gladstone how long were you sick?

    Quick as a Rabbit, you is.
  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,425

    @Gladstone how long were you sick?

    2-3 days of a real 'am I going to cough out a lung and die here in this shower' existential crisis (shower with steam everywhere was my only salvation and I tried everything I could think of, first sick day I ever took in my life), about 10 days of chills and constant coughing, a slightly mild-yet-ever-present cough for a few weeks after that. Just under a month I felt 100% again.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Gladstone said:

    @Gladstone how long were you sick?

    2-3 days of a real 'am I going to cough out a lung and die here in this shower' existential crisis (shower with steam everywhere was my only salvation and I tried everything I could think of, first sick day I ever took in my life), about 10 days of chills and constant coughing, a slightly mild-yet-ever-present cough for a few weeks after that. Just under a month I felt 100% again.
    And when did you feel it come on? Before January 19?