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To: TigersEye

Your 50% is not right. I gave you the CDC information. Did I miss the 50%???

But no, I have no reason to believe the test would be better than 95% specificity required as mentioned in my link.

But I would expect a molecular assay done in a military hospital to be more accurate.


63 posted on 02/29/2020 9:44:18 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick
That is 95% accuracy in the laboratory taking cultures from petri dishes (or whatever) administered by lab technicians using lab protocols. 95% is the best it can possibly be.

But, as the article I gave you a link to explained, when used in the real world, taking cultures from human beings, being administered by all kinds of healthcare workers, figuring in other variables of real world testing the accuracy rates drop to between 50% and 90%.

The big disparity between those two percentages being due to the high number of variables when applied in the real world.

But I would expect a molecular assay done in a military hospital to be more accurate.

Sure. Something that is expensive and takes too much time and has zero to do with CDC kits. Something they have not likely done much of, if any, in China.

64 posted on 02/29/2020 9:54:47 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: RummyChick

Here is my bottom line...the testing done when you present yourself and they want a quick diagnosis will be FAR DIFFERENT than when you have been diagnosed with it, sick, quarantined in a military hospital after being taken off a Virus Ship, treated, and finally had a bunch of tests to determine your clear and can be released from a military quarantine.

Not sure why people don’t understand that...so the question is after all of those tests...why does the patient have it again.


65 posted on 02/29/2020 9:58:28 PM PST by RummyChick
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