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That is the main criticism I have read, they were never meant for the use the way our Government has chosen deploy them and it potentially risks people becoming over confident and dispensing with the other precautions
This is a fun article on Bayes and how it impacts the LFT, which again, I am guessing the majority of LFT users wouldn't take in to account when assessing their result:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/18/obscure-maths-bayes-theorem-reliability-covid-lateral-flow-tests-probability
greentricky-
Very good!
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This is a fun article on Bayes and how it impacts the LFT, which again, I am guessing the majority of LFT users wouldn't take in to account when assessing their result:
That was written in April when the infection prevalence was 1 in 340. Happy days! We are way higher than that at the moment so an LFT positive is unlikely to be false.
marcomarcos
jellybaby
Maybe I'm being too pedantic as ever. If the majority of people who use them don't understand what a negative LFT actually means then perhaps they are useless from a public health perspective.