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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The data is wrong. It is wildly underreporting the number of cases at my kids' school, so I have no reason to trust the rest of it.[/quote]

Agreed. My kid and at least 2 others tested positive in random asymptomatic testing a few weeks ago (and it may have been more), which ended up in 50% of two different classes being quarantined... and those cases were never reported to the school community. We did receive ~5 other positive notifications over the next week, but none with matching numbers or dates.

That said, all 3 kids I know about were totally asymptomatic, tested negative on PCRs within 24 hours of the initial test, never got a positive rapid and never spread it to anyone (including, in 2 of the case, unvaccinated family members)... so I am also somewhat skeptical of the testing. Are we sure they're matching student to test correctly? That there's no contamination? It just seems so strange that it happened in 3 cases in the same round of testing.[/quote]

The tests maybe have been wrong. The accepted margin of error is something like 5 percent of the time; even a good lab could conceivably be wrong 2 perfect if the time. For any individual person, that is negligible, but if you test 200 people, 4 tests could be wrong. Regardless, I am aware of at least one local lab that has been credibly accused of not actually running the tests and just making up the results (including false positive results). It became suspicious when several asymptomatic positives were reported. People home rested and got new PCRs, and no one had covid.  Honestly, if anyone gets an asymptomatic positive, I feel like they need to rest again (ok a rapid and/or PCR to confirm).
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