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More than 600,000 people in Tricare, a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System, received emails July 17 asking if they would donate blood for research as "survivors of COVID-19."
But just 31,000 people affiliated with the U.S. military have been officially diagnosed with the coronavirus, which prompted confusion, Military.com reported last week.
"Just wondering [if] anybody [got] an email from Tricare saying since you are a COVID survivor, please donate your plasma.?? I have NOT been tested," wrote a beneficiary on Facebook. "Just remember all those people inputting data are human and make mistakes."
The mass email went to every beneficiary located near a collection point.
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In Error, Tricare Tells 600K Military Beneficiaries They've had COVID-19
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2020, @01:44PM (2 children)
> Where are the reliable tests, reliable results, etc going to come from?
More accurate question is: where do the reliable results go after they've been collected?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Tuesday July 28 2020, @02:49PM (1 child)
You are assuming, without evidence, that reliable results exist on an individual level. Every test I've looked into has a significant error rate. At an individual level, a 5% false positive level doesn't mean you've got a 5% chance that the test result is wrong, because the chance is also dependent on the percentage of actual positive cases at the population level. Similar comments apply to the false negatives.
Even tests with a fairly high error rate can be useful at the population level, as long as you know the error rate. This is MUCH less true at the individual level.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2020, @04:21PM
5% is an underestimate: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html [nytimes.com]
What percent of these pcr results have been confirmed by culture? 0.01%?