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With this kind of instant testing, I am assuming they are the lateral flow tests which tend to miss quite a big amount of positive cases?
If they're the PCR test it's because they want to sequence them too to check how prevalent the various variants are in the area. You can't do sequencing with the Lateral Flow Tests (unless you take a separate sample).
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I am assuming they are the lateral flow tests which tend to miss quite a big amount of positive cases?
Lateral Flow Tests missing a large number of positive cases is not necessarily negative.
Lateral flow tests and PCR tests are very different tools for very different scenarios. PCR are good to spot that you have had the virus, but will still return positive long after you are no longer infectious. Lateral Flow Tests are a better indicator of infectiousness.
I've found some of the stuff Tom Chivers, and Tim Harford have written on this subject very informative
https://twitter.com/TomChivers
https://twitter.com/BBCMoreOrLess
https://unherd.com/2021/01/what-covid-tests-can-we-trust/
Sifta
Ha, we must be neighbours :)
With this kind of instant testing, I am assuming they are the lateral flow tests which tend to miss quite a big amount of positive cases?
In any case, good reminder to stay vigilant, wash the hands and sing happy birthday I guess