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Rapid roll out of SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing
Rapid roll out of SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing: even at high levels of specificity, an important proportion of test results will be false positives
BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2910 (Published 22 July 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m2910
- Laurence Gruer, honorary professor of public health,
- Raj Bhopal, emeritus professor of public health
- Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
- gruer.health{at}gmail.com
We have published a paper with 12 tables (in a supplementary file) with calculations of sensitivity, specificity, and the predictive power of a positive and negative test that will help people understand the concerns about the rapid roll-out of SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests expressed by Andersson and colleagues.1 With our colleagues we showed that even at high levels of specificity, an …
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