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How accurate are covid19 rapid tests. and why they only swap the front/inside part of the nose. thanks?
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COVID False Negative: Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, reported in June that as many as 1 in 5 RT-PCR tests for the coronavirus may produce false negatives (20%), incorrectly informing a patient that they do not have a SARS-CoV-2 infection when they actually do.
Answered 7/26/2020
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