Old 08-27-2020, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by firefighterplt View Post
I wonder what the sensitivity/specificity numbers are.
Yeah that's the potential issue... false positives.

Those are OK in a clinical setting where you just use a better test to confirm a positive, but a high false positive rate would be bad at the gate.
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