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To: sonrise57

it’s also possible the Quest antibody test is simply unreliable; most of the C-19 tests currently in use were never independently validated by the FDA for accuracy, but instead were “approved” on an emergency-only basis ...

unless a test has been thoroughly validated on thousands of subjects, some of whom are are known to be positive, some known to be negative and some whom are unknown, and all of this is done under rigorous conditions, a tst might have a very large false positive or a very large false negative rate, both, or those rates might be unknown ...


70 posted on 05/04/2020 1:34:29 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: All; catnipman

If done recently at Quest ($119.) this was a blood draw test (not a finger stick test)...the recently FDA approved Roche blood draw antibody test is close to 100% accurate. (Am not sure what brand test Quest is currently using).

https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-got-quests-new-covid-19-antibody-test-and-it-was-strange/

https://questdirect.questdiagnostics.com/products/covid-19-immune-response/b580e541-78a5-48a6-b17b-7bad949dcb57

https://education.questdiagnostics.com/faq/FAQ219

https://www.roche.com/media/releases/med-cor-2020-05-03.htm


74 posted on 05/04/2020 1:52:14 PM PDT by Drago
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