re: #361 Belafon

I’m assuming it’s those. I tend not to get in too many arguments with them.

What concerns me, though, is that we’re not going to “flatten the curve” without testing as many people as possible. By the time you’re testing for symptoms, they’ve already infected many others when they could have been quarantined. And I just don’t think she gets that.

I have heard the tests have a high false positive rate among asymptomatic individuals. Which is why they do multiple tests.

This study found up to 50% of asymptomatic individuals may be false positives. This probably argues we need better testing, but also large scale testing of healthy individuals may do more harm than good.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov