Infidel Dog Posted January 16, 2022 Report Posted January 16, 2022 " TORONTO -- As provinces rely more heavily on rapid antigen tests as part of their strategy to curb the spread of COVID-19, there have been concerns over the possibility of false positive results. Canadian researchers have produced new data shedding light on the likelihood of such events In total, 462 rapid test results, or 0.05 per cent of the 900,000 results, resulted in false positives. This represents 42 per cent of the positive test results in the study." https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canadian-study-reveals-rate-of-false-positives-from-rapid-antigen-tests-1.5742050
Moonlight Graham Posted January 17, 2022 Report Posted January 17, 2022 Isn't 0.05% pretty darn good? "All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain Partisanship is a disease of the intellect.
Infidel Dog Posted January 17, 2022 Author Report Posted January 17, 2022 That's of the total of those tested. Almost all of those would be negative. 42% of the positive results were false positives.
Goddess Posted January 17, 2022 Report Posted January 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Infidel Dog said: 42% of the positive results were false positives. Could be why WHO and CDC have said they should no longer be used. CDC ends PCR testing for Covid due to it being useless - Nexus Newsfeed CDC Is Withdrawing Its PCR Test for COVID | Health.com Lab Alert: Changes to CDC RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 Testing And in MSM (Surprise!): Air Canada, WestJet and Pearson urge end of mandatory COVID-19 testing at airports | Calgary Herald "There are two different types of people in the world - those who want to know and those who want to believe." ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~~
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