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It's #Bullshit to assert that RATs are a “*great* way to keep others safe”.
They're clearly not, especially how most people evidently use them.
A *great* way to keep others safe is to #WearAMask.
A good way is to be #vaccinatedandboosted.
(An infallible way is to not be in the same place as others.)
What is the benefit of a diagnostic that probably has about a 2/3 chance of yielding a false negative on days when infectiousness is close to highest?
X (formerly Twitter)Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen (@Wikisteff) on X@LauraMiers Update: after much, much pushback on this chart (and a lot of retweets), I looked much more carefully and with updated data at what we know about COVID's infectiousness, and at RAT's sensitivity curves.
Here's my revised version of that chart: