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Originally Posted by dirk digler
I heard more about false negatives for PCR testing than false positives. For the quick antigen tests false positives are supposedly rare while false negatives could be up to 50%. That is way to high false negative rate to be useful unless you are doing the test every day. The test the NBA is using just got approved and it has PCR like accuracy.
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I agree that false negatives have been more widely covered with PCR because false positives are not as prevalent due to the hypersensitivity of the test. The issue that is becoming more clear is the limited insight from a positive result. Though it is not technically a "false positive", it essentially is in terms of what determining whether the individual is at risk to the community at the time of testing.