Having worked in a health care setting for two decades before retiring, I understand that diagnostic testing, in every modality, has known rates of false positive and false negative results.
However, my recollection is that during the pandemic we were told that all had to mask up and stand six feet apart because even those folks who had no symptoms could still be infected with a viral burden sufficient to spread the disease to others. Did I hear that incorrectly?
And because of that, there were all these publicly available testing centers where cars stood in lines so everyone could get tested once a week or so for screening of all those asymptomatic disease spreaders.
We were told that the rate of infection was so high based exactly on how many were tested positive at these government testing sites who had no symptoms.
This is why we never established "herd immunity" (remember that chimera?).
Doesn't anyone remember this stuff?
However, my recollection is that during the pandemic we were told that all had to mask up and stand six feet apart because even those folks who had no symptoms could still be infected with a viral burden sufficient to spread the disease to others. Did I hear that incorrectly?
And because of that, there were all these publicly available testing centers where cars stood in lines so everyone could get tested once a week or so for screening of all those asymptomatic disease spreaders.
We were told that the rate of infection was so high based exactly on how many were tested positive at these government testing sites who had no symptoms.
This is why we never established "herd immunity" (remember that chimera?).
Doesn't anyone remember this stuff?