{"id":240,"date":"2020-06-29T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.causeweb.org\/stub\/?p=240"},"modified":"2020-06-29T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:15:53","slug":"sensitivity-and-specificity-understanding-shortcomings-of-antibody-tests-with-the-covid-19-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causeweb.org\/stub\/2020\/06\/29\/sensitivity-and-specificity-understanding-shortcomings-of-antibody-tests-with-the-covid-19-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensitivity and specificity: understanding shortcomings of antibody tests with the COVID-19 virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sensitivity and specificity are commonly taught concepts in biostatistics courses. The article linked <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/coronavirus-antibody-tests-have-a-mathematical-pitfall\/?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&amp;utm_campaign=2426c56bed-briefing-dy-20200617&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-2426c56bed-45461694\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> gives a nice visual explanation of false positives and false negatives with tests that do have high sensitivity and specificity, but a low infection rate of the disease in the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sensitivity and specificity are commonly taught concepts in biostatistics courses. The article linked here gives a nice visual explanation of false positives and false negatives with tests that do have high sensitivity and specificity, but a low infection rate of the disease in the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeweb.org\/stub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeweb.org\/stub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeweb.org\/stub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeweb.org\/stub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeweb.org\/stub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/causeweb.org\/stub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/causeweb.org\/stub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeweb.org\/stub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeweb.org\/stub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeweb.org\/stub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}