Editorial: Widespread coronavirus testing won't help end the pandemic if it's inaccurate (via latimesopinion)
A surge of new coronavirus antibody tests, some of them used in studies that appear to show a far greater rate of infection and recovery than we’d imagined, has set the world to dreaming.
and avoid a repeat of the unconscionable delays in producing the PCR tests, which remain in too short supply.But having plenty of tests won’t help if they’re inaccurate, and some of the antibody tests have unacceptably high rates of false positives. Such mistakes give people the dangerous belief that they’re safe from the disease and an even more dangerous belief that they can’t infect others.
The studies that purportedly showed that vastly more people have been infected — such as one conducted bythat concluded the number of infected Santa Clara County residents was 50 to 85 times what had been reported so far — have come under criticisms for alleged shortcomings in their methodology.
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