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The Art of Fully Understanding Covid-19 Screening Tests

Summary by pourlascience.fr

What if there were actually a lot of healthy people among those who test positive? Stuffing long cotton swabs in the noses of our fellow citizens would then be useless... But a detailed calculation shows that in reality, the probability of false positives is likely to be very low.

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The Art of Fully Understanding Covid-19 Screening Tests

What if there were actually a lot of healthy people among those who test positive? Stuffing long cotton swabs in the noses of our fellow citizens would then be useless... But a detailed calculation shows that in reality, the probability of false positives is likely to be very low.

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pourlascience.fr broke the news in 5 days ago on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.

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