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Offline bluestreak

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Re: So will there be a 2020 season?
« Reply #1175: August 01, 2020, 11:48:57 AM »
I don't see why everyone seems to want to write of Soto's positive as a simple false positive.  False positives are rare. Someone here said false negative are 15% and false positive, 10%. I don't think that's correct, I think false positives are closer to 2%.  However, many of the false positive are people who had the virus (asymptomatic) and are over it.  In that case, some of the virus remains in your system but you are no longer infected nor contagious. What they should do is test him for antibodies.

Well if you have one test, and then multiple negative tests immediately afterward, I would be much more likely to call it a false positive. And 2 percent isn’t exactly rare. Assuming they are testing all the players every two days, every team should expect a false positive 1-2 times per week.