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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the city could manage false positives better, then I would opt in to testing. But this spring showed us that it can’t. So nope, they won’t be testing my kid again. [/quote]

what happened with the false positive? a long time out of school?[/quote]

Good question.  Can’t you just test again?  [/quote]

LOL no.  You are out of school for two weeks full stop.  It doesn't matter if you test again and it is negative.[/quote]

Wow. So better not to risk a test unless you have symptoms or a known exposure.[/quote]

Particularly since asymptomatic testing has a higher likelihood of false positives.  Let's not even get started on testing of the vaccinated.[/quote]

That is NOT TRUE. 
Asymptomatic testing using the take-home rapid tests has a very high likelihood of false negatives.
Labs have adjusted the number of cycles in PCR so that those no longer produce false positive.[/quote]

Rapid at home tests provide 17% of the time false positives.

https://www.cochrane.org/CD013705/INFECTN_how-accurate-are-rapid-tests-diagnosing-covid-19
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