Beware of false negatives in diagnostic testing of COVID-19

ScienceDaily
May 26, 2020, 5:38 pm155 pts
Researchers have found that the chance of a false negative result -- when a virus is not detected in a person who actually is, or recently has been, infected -- is greater than 1 in 5 and, at times, far higher.

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