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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kumleben N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7287442 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Public health 20200611
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibody tests of varying specificity and sensitivity are now available. For informing individuals whether they have had coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), they need to be very accurate. For measuring population prevalence of past infection, the numbers of false positives and negatives need to be roughly equal. With a series of worked examples for a notional population of 100,000 people, we show that even test systems with a high spe ...[more]