The point is they didnt even try for test runs. How many people died while they stuffed their thumbs up their asses, and then glory of glorys they apparently got their ‘alpha and beta’ tests back and in record time....after the internet was showing it worked and approved of its use! What value does a bueracracy have when they dont even allow for people being killed in 5 days after contracting the disease, not to try this on them to attempt a love saving measure? France is farther ahead of the curve than the FDA.
Do you have G6PD Def? If so YOU can’t take the drugs.
Medical tests have to be sensitive or specific. Can’t be both. It’s like fast or cheap.
Ever have one of those lights in your back yard that goes off every time there is motion and sounds an alarm? If it’s so sensitive it goes off every time a bunny or bird passes through you are going to eventually just turn it off. You have to turn down the sensitivity in order to be more specific (burglar). CDC was in burglar mode. They got caught on their back foot in December and had to spin up all new tests that were more sensitive, hence the high rate of False Negatives. I’d that easier to understand?
When a physician orders a test he is already increasing the specificity by the fact he is ordering it for symptoms so you can increase the sensitivity to reduce false negatives. These are some of the reasons I say “we are blowing up standards that have been in place for decades by letting people get tests on demand,”. Laypeople tend not to understand these things and so cannot possibly hope to understand what the test results “actually mean”.