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Originally Posted by Sooner or later
At 40 cycles the false positive rate may approach 97%. That does not mean that all tests have a false positive rate of 97%.
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Mathematically, that is true, but how concerned would you be if you tested positive, only after 40 cycles?
More importantly, why did the CDC recommend a 40 cycle minimum as the standard, when they knew, from their own goddamn research, that there was almost no possibility of the presence of live virus and a test taken to that point?
Why is it that they almost never will give you the number of cycles when reporting the results of a test?
When did the CDC sees to be a useful arm of the federal government and instead become a politically useful tool?