Re:FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test
by phobosanomaly on Thursday December 17, 2020 @01:33AM
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Is it possible that less people were actually infected than was expected?
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Re:FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test
by lultimouomo on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:51AM
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Possible, but seems unlikely.
In Bozen they mass-tested 65% of the population over the course of 3 days.
They were getting 540 positive PCR tests every 100k people a week in the week before the mass screening; the latter yielded 900 positive antigen results every 100k people; they got 435 positive PCR tests every 100k people in the week after the screening.
This 20% reduction in positive PCR tests seems mostly due to the lockdown, given that the week before the mass screening the reduction had been even greater, 32%.