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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
False positives on rapid tests? Didn't you just say they were basically useless catching cases?
Pick a lane man.
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Sigh.
https://ebn.bmj.com/content/23/1/2
Cliff's Notes: There are two ways for tests to go wrong. They can miss an actual positive (a false negative), or they incorrectly mark an actual negative as a positive (a false positive). When considering symptomatic testing, rapid tests suck because they produce a lot of false negatives. When considering asymptomatic testing, rapid tests suck because they produce a lot of false positives. Given low community infection rates, lowish sensitivity (ability to find true positives), and a 99% specificity (ability to find true negatives), it may be the case that nine out of ten (or more) of asymptomatic rapid test "positives" are false positives.