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Sep 18, 2020 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
"The Curious Case of the 1% Positive Rate Baseline in #Ireland"

A #COVID19 thread.

The HPSC and HSE provides us with this chart for "Positive Rate (%) Previous 7 Days" on their dashboard. Link: covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospital…

Positive Rate (%) is going up. Let's examine closer.

1/14 Dr Cillian de Gascun, the chairman of the National Public Health Expert Team (#NPHET) stated in a detailed thread last week that "false positive" test results occur at a rate in the region of 1-3%.

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