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In testing...

In China, studies reported in the journal Radiology showed they aren’t always definitive.

False negatives comprised 3% of the patient population.

The study authors noted that RT-PCR tests may produce false negatives due to laboratory error, insufficient amount of viral material collected, samples stored or handled improperly, if the patient is tested too early in the course of infection, and improper sampling.

We should still be testing - just not so fixated in that issue.

If the panic over lack of testing will abate, and if people presumptively treat any symptoms as if they were COVID-19, we would have better controls over the spread.

Of course, presuming they follow the hygiene, isolation and social distancing processes.

So lack of testing itself isn’t widening the spread as much as poor common sense imho.