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That's an antibody-based test not approved for diagnostic use in the US, which is faster but less accurate than the RT-PCR ones currently being used.



It's just the only one that I could get numbers on. So... show me sensitivity/specificity numbers that show a 0% false positive rate. The CDC PCR test [1], for example, has some data and no false positives, but the sample sizes are so small (107 known negatives tested) that the best we can estimate is ~96% specificity.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download




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