Tyson Victor Weems
1 min readJun 21, 2020

Okay solid. My take on NYC being the “best” data was based on the relatively high prevalence, which would theoretically reduce the amount of influence of false positive antibody test results. The Santa Clara study findings seemed particularly likely to be skewed by these.

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Tyson Victor Weems
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Totally agreed.
Santa Clara detected something like 1.2% unweighted, but up to 0.8% could have been false positives.
So the real infections could have been as low as 0.4% if they had no false negatives and maximum false positives. Unlikely, but…

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