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Covid-19 2020-04 part four
Credibility of Medical Studies Miscellany
Covid-19 Testing through 2020

most Covid-19 antibody tests are inaccurate      web

webhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/us/coronavirus-antibody-tests.html
authorSteve Eder, Megan Twohey and Apoorva Mandavilli
publicationNew York Times
date2020-04-19

Excerpt: Even Cellex’s F.D.A.-authorized test has a false positive rate of about five percent. That is still a significant margin of error: In a community where five percent of people have had the virus, Dr. Osterholm said, there would be as many false positives as true ones.

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