Right
But it would be rather inconvenient for the false positives.
There aren’t really very many false positives, though there are quite a large number of false negatives. If you’ve had the virus fairly recently and know that you aren’t contagious anymore you probably shouldn’t test
You believe that a random sampling of 100 symptomatic people and another sampling of 100 healthy people will yield an identical percent positive? I find that hard to accept.
I’m it saying I agree (I don’t) but if the spread is occurring faster than we are detecting it then it’s plausible
For my family we had 3/7 have false positives 2 months after contracting it.
That’s not a false positive, that’s a very sensitive test. A false positive would be if the test detects virus particle in someone does not have the virus inside of their nose.
If you’ve had COVID in this wave, you should probably not be joining the ranks of those testing to lower the rate. Otherwise, if it says you’re positive, you’re probably positive.