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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: TigersEye

Do you really believe they are relying on the CDC kit in a military hospital in Japan after someone has been sick with the virus in order to determine if they can be released from quarantine???

Surely you know that Japan is better than that..maybe you can believe that about China..but these people were in Japan. And not only Japan..but Israel tested those people

So you think they relied on the CDC test?


66 posted on 02/29/2020 10:02:06 PM PST by RummyChick
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