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Old March 30th 20, 06:30 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Ralph Barone[_4_]
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https://apple.news/AEeKKHRVoT3qSexuMizDVQQ

https://www.telluridenews.com/news/a...7aa65d030.html

A biotech company plans to test all 8000 residents of Telluride, CO for
COVID-19 antibodies. Preliminary results are that nobody in town has them.


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Old March 30th 20, 03:03 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Tom Kunich[_2_]
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On Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 10:30:29 PM UTC-7, Ralph Barone wrote:
https://apple.news/AEeKKHRVoT3qSexuMizDVQQ

https://www.telluridenews.com/news/a...7aa65d030.html

A biotech company plans to test all 8000 residents of Telluride, CO for
COVID-19 antibodies. Preliminary results are that nobody in town has them..


That sort of thing is a questionable type of testing. You can show anti-body positive without ever being exposed to the specific virus since you can have the same reaction to many different types of viruses. That is why you have to have an absolute baseline of what percentage of the population actually are infected before any of the other tests make a great deal of sense.
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Old March 30th 20, 05:14 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Ralph Barone[_4_]
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Default Testing in Telluride

Tom Kunich wrote:
On Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 10:30:29 PM UTC-7, Ralph Barone wrote:
https://apple.news/AEeKKHRVoT3qSexuMizDVQQ

https://www.telluridenews.com/news/a...7aa65d030.html

A biotech company plans to test all 8000 residents of Telluride, CO for
COVID-19 antibodies. Preliminary results are that nobody in town has them.


That sort of thing is a questionable type of testing. You can show
anti-body positive without ever being exposed to the specific virus since
you can have the same reaction to many different types of viruses. That
is why you have to have an absolute baseline of what percentage of the
population actually are infected before any of the other tests make a great deal of sense.


You missed the data point hidden in the second article. They did advance
testing of 645 health care workers and early responders, and using a test
that you claim is subject to false positives, they got no positive results.
So it would appear that nobody in Telluride has already been infected and
recovered, which stands in direct opposition to your hypothesis that most
people have already had it.

 




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