Waiting for Zero
I am copying across posts I wrote in 2020 for prosperity. This was originally posted on 7th Sept 2020.
For all the people carefully counting COVID deaths and cases there may be an expectation that the number we are aiming for is zero. This is a mistake. There will always be a proportion of cases tested who will be given a false positive test result when they do not have COVID.
What does zero look like?
Thankfully for COVID testing the false positive rat…
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