[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by MeghansLetterToSanta

i think the number of daily infections reported in america is tiny compared to the real number. They dont have access to fast testing like we have here, so the actual number could be 5 or 10 times that reported.

Even here, i reckon it will be 3 or 4 times the reported value because many people just dont want to be tracked. It's enough to know that they are positive and stay home

Yeah that's what I did tbh, positives on a lateral flow are reliable enough without really needing to do a pcr. The only benefit of doing a pcr really is that evidence of past infection is valid in most countries for a covid pass

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Cousin Eddie

Yeah that's what I did tbh, positives on a lateral flow are reliable enough without really needing to do a pcr. The only benefit of doing a pcr really is that evidence of past infection is valid in most countries for a covid pass

Who says lateral flow tests are reliable ??

Mass testing may be helpful and necessary in certain circumstances if delivered to high quality, they explain, but the Innova lateral flow test is not fit for this purpose.

For example, in the Liverpool pilot study, 60% of infected symptomless people went undetected, including 33% of those with high viral loads who are at highest risk of infecting others.


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Originally Posted by Zizu

Who says lateral flow tests are reliable ??

Mass testing may be helpful and necessary in certain circumstances if delivered to high quality, they explain, but the Innova lateral flow test is not fit for this purpose.

For example, in the Liverpool pilot study, 60% of infected symptomless people went undetected, including 33% of those with high viral loads who are at highest risk of infecting others.


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but they don't tend to show positive if you are negative, so they are not as inaccurate as you are implying

What i mean is, if they show positive you are very rarely negative

[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by MeghansLetterToSanta

but they don't tend to show positive if you are negative, so they are not as inaccurate as you are implying

What i mean is, if they show positive you are very rarely negative

Yeah this is it, you might get a false negative especially at the start of infection but it's incredibly unlikely that a positive is false especially if you're getting them multiple times