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Jun Murotsuki, who heads the Department of Maternal and Fetal Medicine at Miyagi Children's Hospital. He and other experts warn that the trend of private labs performing COVID-19 tests to companies who want to send employees overseas on business trips could create problems for public health efforts working to curtail the virus. They warned that the procedure could give people a false sense of security.
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A negative test result is not a total proof that you are not infected. Test takers do not always have the same understanding as the test providers do. Medical workers will face the ethical test of what they should explain and how they should explain it to people when administering the tests.
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Dango bong
sounds like someone who could profit by scaring people into thinking they are sick
Sven Asai
He is right, as the high theoretical percentage rates of specifity and sensitivity of all those test methods rather very much differ from the rates in the real practical handling of the probes and the real clinical environment. That means, you have in reality enormous error rates with sending people out again unrecognized who tested negative but contain a sufficient virus load for further spreading, and on the other side you also have lot of people who are tested positive but are healthy and therefore are unnecessarily stigmatized or quarantined. Without the right and fitting test strategy you don’t need any testing at all.
vic.M
Always testing numbers but virtually no deaths. Time to ditch the mask and social distancing and return to a normal life.