Antibody test accuracy and immunity passports

Looks like even when the UK finally achieves 100,000 tests per day we’ll still have thousands of people being incorrectly diagnosed, as whatever the NHS eventually end up using will provide similar accuracy to the antibody tests recently approved by the FDA over in USA.

This Cellex test has a "sensitivity" of 93.8% so of those who have actually been infected 6.2% will receive a false-negative result and end up self isolating unnecessarily.

Whilst the "specificity" of 95.6% means a...

Antibody test accuracy and immunity passports


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