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One thing that seems really important is that we get testing right. Here is a paper stating up to 80% of false positives: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32133832/ If that was true it would make all the stats nearly useless. I have also heard that the so called 'quick tests' are even worse.


The group at Charité Berlin which developed the WHO test claims they had no false positives in hundreds of trials.




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