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I must repeat that the data is useless without the statistics being shown to back it up, I'd like the N, R, and positive predictive value of all the tests to make a clinical judgement.
As a physician, I must however state that the fact that such a large portion of our population has been exposed is just disturbing. I would not go so far as to say that it's good to scare people with such statistics, however, because I've yet to see a decent study showing that scare tactics of this sort might be effective. If it could be proved effective in lowering the rates of transmission, I would be in favor of it even if the numbers are cooked...
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