re: #381 danarchy

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

Sometimes, it’s bad when a false positive occurs, and there are times when it’s ok. When your spam filter checks your email, it’s better to have fewer false positives. In this case, if we had an adequate system such as paid sick leave, wouldn’t it be better to have false positives stay at home than to have real positives running around?