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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1306151)	7/1/2021 12:34:45 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 1584048

BC, my family already went through the whole drama of a false positive test. However, the test that came up "positive" was a rapid result test, which is prone to false positives. We confirmed that the result was false with a follow-up PCR test. But in the meantime we had to tell everyone we came in contact with about the positive test, and we had to go through the very annoying process of quarantining ourselves. As for the PCR test, it seems its false positive rate is 1.16%, according to a link I found using Google. That's sounds small, but when millions of tests are being administered every single day, that can add up to a LOT of people going through the same annoying crap that my family had to go through. Hence I'm fine with health officials constantly adjusting the sensitivity of the PCR test to balance out the considerations from multiple sides. That includes false negatives (which is much, much worse than false positives), whether it's better to tolerate false positives during a surge vs. during a low period of infections, etc. Tenchusatsu

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