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Re:Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Tests Positive, Then Negative for C... by chx on Saturday August 08, 2020 @07:45PM (#24096143)
https://blog.plan99.net/pseudo-epidemics-7603b2da839 ...
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Re:Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Tests Positive, Then Negative for C... by systemsdude on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:46PM (#24096632)
The false positive test was for antigens. Tests like that are known to be less accurate: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/coronavirus-antigen-...

The two negatives were PCR tests. Those are different from antigen tests. The blog post you've linked says there is a problem with false positives with PCR tests, but that doesn't seem to be relevant here, given that both of those results are negative.

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