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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Depends on the test. Most of the early tests (like the ones used on the Boston and Santa Clara examples listed in Bowser's link) had extremely poor specificity which rendered them a coinflip at best and led to a vast overestimation of the number of infections and a complete misrepresentation of the fatality rate (claiming it was much lower than reality).
Some of the newer tests that have been verified by outside parties have much better specificity levels, but it needs to be above 99.5% to have clinical utility in this environment.
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I`m in the SF Bay Area and Ive been told you can go to any Lab Corps or Quest Labs and pay $125 for an antibody test. I wonder if what they use today is legit or not?