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Prescribing Cycling; Temperature Checks; False Positives; Choirs and Covid-19

Inside Health

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Covid 19 Is a New Virus, and the More People Turn Up for Testing, the More Likely You Are to Get a False Positive.

The office for national statistics admits they do not quote now te true sensitivity and specificity of the test. The more people that turn up for testing, the more likely you are to pick up people o a false positive. So what we have to do now is focus on producing a highly accurate test. And if we don't do that, we'll be in this cycle where covid will never disappear,. because people keep getting tested, will be having a false positive result.

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