Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab

Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by ptero on Friday March 20, 2020 @07:28AM (#22636687)

There is a big system-level difference: with 50% false positive, half of the population goes back to living regular lives. False positives stay home, and go to a hospital only if they need a ventialtor (which very few will need since they are not actually sick)

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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by owl57 on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:04AM (#22637577)

There are 50% false positive, and there are some false negative. And some more not exactly false negative, but simply got sick after the test. And you tell them: we tested everyone, all negatives can just resume normal life. What could go wrong?

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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by notyourday on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:43AM (#22637427)

If you can't breath you go to the hospital regardless of it being COVID-19.

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