[dx034]

Shouldn't we optimize for a higher number of false positives? In the end, sending someone in quarantine for 2 weeks without them being infected is probably less dangerous than a false negative. So making tests overly sensitive would seem more applicable to me here.

[chimprich]

If you're quarantining a large number of medics then that's potentially serious and possibly more dangerous overall if your numbers are off.

[dx034]

You could administer two tests for those, I believe that's what's already done.

[adventured]

No, we should optimize for a balance between the two.

For example a 150,000 batch of rapid tests China recently sent to Czechia had 80% error rates. You don't want to be mass quarantining people because of such terrible testing supplies.

[mschuster91]

There's nothing inherently bad with mass quarantines.