19-10-2020, 18:34
The false positive issue is a total red herring and is being seized upon by certain people in the press who frankly we really shouldn't be giving oxygen to.
If false positives were behind the spike in numbers, it would be uniform across the UK and it clearly isn’t. Hospital admissions are at their highest level since the summer, you dont go to hospital with a severe case of false positives.
Positive test rates are going up as a percentage of total tests, no doubt about it. But this can’t be because of an increase in false positives as the rate of false positives remains constant unless the actual method of testing changes, which it hasn’t.
If false positives were behind the spike in numbers, it would be uniform across the UK and it clearly isn’t. Hospital admissions are at their highest level since the summer, you dont go to hospital with a severe case of false positives.
Positive test rates are going up as a percentage of total tests, no doubt about it. But this can’t be because of an increase in false positives as the rate of false positives remains constant unless the actual method of testing changes, which it hasn’t.