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Originally Posted by 1990C4S
I'm not a healthcare person in any way, I was just wondering about the fallibility of the tests, and the probability of new variants causing a problem for vaccinated people.
At no time did I ask for advice on him returning to work, I'm sure Harvard can look after that.
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I did a lot of research on testing back when DeWine had his "I'm positive... WAIT! No I'm not" last summer. The most reliable is considered the PCR which is supposed to have an accepted error rate of somewhere around 25% but that's on the false negative side. On the false positive side it's supposed to be between .5 and 1% or something like that. I could link some stuff that I have bookmarked on testing but it's really not all that exciting.
As I said in my first reply, the vaccine isn't a guarantee you don't get the virus. There is still a chance you can get it but you're supposed to get a less severe case if you do get it. Again, keep us posted and sorry for muddying up your thread with the argument about testing accuracy. I'll stop now.