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Re:New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificit... by Marsymars on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:34PM (#23157804)
That effect doesn't seem like it would skew a larger difference between Alberta and NYC test positivity rates. If anything, that would depress Alberta test positivity rates more than NYC ones, since we've got more spare testing capacity for people without all the right symptoms.
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Re:New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificit... by CydeWeys on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:13PM (#23158372)
What does Alberta have to do with anything?
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Re:New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificit... by Marsymars on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:24PM (#23160072)
It's the "we" (I live in Alberta) I was originally referring to with the 3.5% test positivity rate.
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