On: New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificity and 100% sensitivity

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What if prevalence is 5% or 10%? Your alarming false positive rates vanish. No measure is ever going to work perfectly.

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At an individual basis it can still be problematic as you can still get a super spreader who thinks they are immune, picks it up, then spreads it.

On a population basis it’s more helpful.