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tptacek on May 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% spe...

The question isn't whether they're possible, it's whether the antibody tests are reliable that far from the actual incidence of C19.

guscost on May 12, 2020 [–]

Don’t you mean sensitivity dropping off? The way it’s phrased sounds like someone is more likely to get a false positive as time passes after... no infection happened?

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