Post #4181891
2026-07-28 17:05 UTC
@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org Rapid tests have had very high false negative rates for some years now:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00430-022-00730-z/tables/3
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.18.21268018v1.full.pdf
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00749-25
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039914024005265
and that's before considering 6 years of reagents deteriorating.
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@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org 2026-07-29 00:28
@datum@zeroes.ca Thanks; alas, I can't readily parse that stuff, and data is not information. I'll see if I can get in touch with medical folk here. What a mess I live under