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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rather than opting out, the people concerned about false positives should be clarifying what happens once a positive is reported.  Is it immediately followed up with a PCR test? [/quote]

This is important, especially if there is a high false positive rate. Also knowing what the school will do if a school, or privately administered, follow-up PCR test is negative following a positive at school will be interesting. I'm absolutely not opting out of testing, but it would really suck for my kid or one of their classmates to cause others to quarantine on faulty results. Given these stats, why can't they just do the nasal swab rapids? My young child's summer program did the nasal swab tests and it was a non-issue.[/quote]

Actually these are supposed to be more reliable than a rapid nasal swab test. I'm not sure why they aren't just doing regular PCR, but, the processing time is much longer and the kid may have infected their whole class in the 2 days they wait for the results, so perhaps that's why.[/quote]

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