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An excellent thread on the antibody test--read the whole thing. 

TL,DR: via the magic of Bayesian statistics, the test is going to produce a brobdingnagian number of false positives as long as the actual number of infected people is small.  This could kill people if they let down their guard based on a positive test.

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[burger]

An excellent thread on the antibody test--read the whole thing. 

TL,DR: via the magic of Bayesian statistics, the test is going to produce a brobdingnagian number of false positives as long as the actual number of infected people is small.  This could kill people if they let down their guard based on a positive test.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/zbinney_NFLinj/status/1245789672833417217[/tweet]