America’s Public Health Experiment: The testing failure
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Rapid Antagen Tests Are Better Than Pc R Tests
There was this kind of consensus in the us that we should be using pc r tests, which are more accurate than rapid antagen tests. But from a public health perspective, what we care about is can you infect someone else? So i would rather take a test that has some false negatives, but that has a pretty good ability to identify individuals who are infectious and can give you results in 15 minutes. And again, this was itot the perfect being the enemy of the good.
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