Christophe Veltsos
Great 🧵 by Nick Anderegg going through a paper on Covid rapid tests, how they work, their accuracy (vs PCR tests), and a bit of statistics. To read and share. threadreaderapp.com/thread/18199... #Covid #Testing #RapidTests #RATs

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@NickAnderegg: This isn't a major paper, but it's an interesting jumping-off point for three different topics: - Accuracy of RATs—in practice - Understanding what descriptive (incl. Bayesian) statistics mean - HOW r...…

Aug 29, 2024 at 11:51amWeb
Show threadStephen Bannasch (316 ppm)Aug 31, 2024
@drinfosec.bsky.social good thread … but missing that RATs are designed to return a positive result around and above the minimum COVID viral load that’s considered to be infectious. This is different than a PCR test which can measure very tiny levels of COVID that are definitely not infectious. This means the definition of a “false negative” is very different for a PCR test compared to a RAT.