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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77804472 United States 07/08/2020 09:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My friend has a friend that has a daughter. Well, the daughter has a friend that is a nurse here in Arizona. No symptoms whatsoever. She is a covid tester nurse. Yesterday, she tested herself and it was negative. Then, a few hours later, on a hunch, she tested herself again and it was positive. They seem to send out batches geared for failure--in a randomized way. I think that is how there is such a spike in certain states, hell, maybe all states. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78986815 Unless its a molecular test done by an experienced sample extractor, the results will always be questionable. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79110330 United States 07/08/2020 09:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If she was testing and retesting within hours, then it is a rapid test, and very very few of those are being done. There are two rapid tests. One has a 50% accuracy rate, and the Abbot test I believe is 80%. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79110330 United States 07/08/2020 09:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | unless you are talking about the rapid tests. They are notoriously inaccurate and are only used on patients that need to be admitted in an emergency or need life saving surgery when there isn't time for a PCR test. The vast majority of testing done in Arizona is a swab PCR test, which is highly accurate. However, it takes from 24 hours to up to a week to get results back depending on how swamped the labs are. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79110330 If she was testing and retesting within hours, then it is a rapid test, and very very few of those are being done. There are two rapid tests. One has a 50% accuracy rate, and the Abbot test I believe is 80%. Also I might add, the rapid tests are EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE, and if she was a nurse testing herself on a whim like that, she probably won't be employed much longer. |
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User ID: 35809485 United States 07/08/2020 09:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i guarandamntee you that in 6 months to a year from now they will come out and admit the test was flawed and gave way too many false positives. Quoting: NunyaBizz Ha that's funny the government coming out and telling us the truth. They don't have any clue how, to tell the truth, it's just not in the government DNA. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 71943274 United States 07/08/2020 09:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i guarandamntee you that in 6 months to a year from now they will come out and admit the test was flawed and gave way too many false positives. Quoting: NunyaBizz They already admit it and Trump has even distanced his self from the scam of it. They had drs report in here over covid? First thing we see is all the money we can make setting up a test site ... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79126407 United States 07/08/2020 09:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Medical scientists need to organize a study of the various tests and present data to the public (and investigators if appropriate) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77963234 PCR swab tests are very accurate if done correctly, the rest not so much. If there are any inaccuracies with the swabs, its because the tester did not swab an area in the nose or throat that had virus present. In other words you are far more likely to have a false negative than a false positive. |
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User ID: 78769062 United States 07/08/2020 09:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | explain this? A swab test is done in the ER. and hour and a half later they have a result? How do they manage to do that when all these people waiting in line at a drive thru to get tested also using a swab up the nose....are told they won't have the results for up to 5 days. How is that? |
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User ID: 76427499 Australia 07/08/2020 09:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Medical scientists need to organize a study of the various tests and present data to the public (and investigators if appropriate) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77963234 PCR swab tests are very accurate if done correctly, the rest not so much. If there are any inaccuracies with the swabs, its because the tester did not swab an area in the nose or throat that had virus present. In other words you are far more likely to have a false negative than a false positive. From CDC A positive test result shows you may have antibodies from an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold the 3rd shaking |
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User ID: 78930216 United States 07/08/2020 10:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i guarandamntee you that in 6 months to a year from now they will come out and admit the test was flawed and gave way too many false positives. Quoting: NunyaBizz If Biden wins it will be right after election night. All the protests all the rona... all of it will suddenly stop if Biden wins. If Biden loses, it will continue for four more years. They're rigging the system. RAGE |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 78986815 United States 07/08/2020 10:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | explain this? Quoting: Yellow Bird in TX A swab test is done in the ER. and hour and a half later they have a result? How do they manage to do that when all these people waiting in line at a drive thru to get tested also using a swab up the nose....are told they won't have the results for up to 5 days. How is that? Dude, I didn't say that she got the results instantly. Then again, maybe she did. This was third hand info. My friend does not know the specifics. Maybe there was a lapse of a day or so. No one is lying. Again, like I said... I don't spin my own fucking wheels--that is lame. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 78986815 United States 07/08/2020 10:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | explain this? Quoting: Yellow Bird in TX A swab test is done in the ER. and hour and a half later they have a result? How do they manage to do that when all these people waiting in line at a drive thru to get tested also using a swab up the nose....are told they won't have the results for up to 5 days. How is that? Dude, I didn't say that she got the results instantly. Then again, maybe she did. This was third hand info. My friend does not know the specifics. Maybe there was a lapse of a day or so. No one is lying. Again, like I said... I don't spin my own fucking wheels--that is lame. The nurse tested and retested a bit later and the results were different. I get the skepticism. I am a born skeptic. But this shit is legit. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79126407 United States 07/08/2020 10:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Medical scientists need to organize a study of the various tests and present data to the public (and investigators if appropriate) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77963234 PCR swab tests are very accurate if done correctly, the rest not so much. If there are any inaccuracies with the swabs, its because the tester did not swab an area in the nose or throat that had virus present. In other words you are far more likely to have a false negative than a false positive. From CDC A positive test result shows you may have antibodies from an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold That is the antibody serology test, and not the PCR test. Not all serology tests are accurate. To be useful it has to have extremely high specificity to sars-ncov-2. The good news is the serology testing in Arizona is tiny in comparison to PCR. |