Current State of COVID Testing
Author(s) -
Richard Simoneaux,
Steven L. Shafer
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asa monitor
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2380-4025
pISSN - 2380-4017
DOI - 10.1097/01.asm.0000716944.70366.26
Subject(s) - covid-19 , current (fluid) , state (computer science) , virology , medicine , computer science , engineering , electrical engineering , outbreak , disease , algorithm , infectious disease (medical specialty)
other words, what is the prevalence? The positive and negative predictive values are completely different if the disease is very rare (e.g., only 0.1% of the population being tested has COVID) or very common (e.g., 90% of the population has COVID). There are many online calculators for positive and negative predictive values. Alternatively, you can download a spreadsheet created by the authors asamonitor. pub/spreadsheet.
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