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Re:FDA approves Theranos test for HSV-1 by legulere on Friday July 03, 2015 @12:34PM (#9826519)
The biggest problem with mass testing are the false positives. When you're testing 100 million people even a low false positive rate of 0.1% will still mean that 100 000 people will think they're sick when they're not. I once even saw an example where they calculated that when everybody did an HIV test most positives actually would be false positives.

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