As COVID-19 tests become more widely available across the U….
As COVID-19 tests become more widely available across the U.S., scientists have warned that there is one growing concern: the tests are not 100 percent reliable. One of the fastest tests being used to diagnose people infected with coronavirus is Abbott ID NOW. Nevertheless, oftentimes this test appears to be not accurate. While the sensitivity of a particular test depends on many factors, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic found that ID NOW only detected the virus in 85.2% of the samples, meaning that it failed to recognize 14.8% of infected individuals. Thinking about these results in the context of a hypothesis test with the null hypothesis “Individual is not infected with coronavirus”, the percentage of false-negatives (14.8%) represents a:
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