Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat groups for food

Re:Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat gr... by rdtwo on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:38PM (#30981461)

Is it? Or all all the false positives from over testing creating a huge problem?

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Re:Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat gr... by drno123 on Monday April 11, 2022 @01:08AM (#30984904)

If you have a test with 0.1% false positive rate, and you test 25Mil people on a weekly basis, every week you get 25.000 false positives, or, as they say, “asymptomatic cases”.

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