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Re:CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, Ca... by nomel on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:44PM (#22437614)
> They're worried about false negatives,

Could you explain this logic a little more? Unless the false negative is something very high (do we know what it is?), I don't understand why identifying none is better than identifying some some, especially with an exponential spread.

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Re:CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, Ca... by dwild on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:24PM (#22438608)
He said this:

> its best to go ahead and quarantine them,

In an ideal world, you wouldn't let them go. A test only allow to send people out of a quarantine.

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