{"id":1062,"date":"2020-08-13T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/?post_type=cu_description&#038;p=1062"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:05:18","slug":"what-is-the-current-rate-of-false-positive-covid-19-tests","status":"publish","type":"cu_description","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/description\/what-is-the-current-rate-of-false-positive-covid-19-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the current rate of false positive COVID-19 tests?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to Public Health Ontario, as of May 23, 2020, their laboratory has detected a false positivity rate of less than 0.01% (specificity of &gt;99.99%). False negatives are more concerning. Studies have found the test&#8217;s sensitivity (true positive rate) to measure between 70% and 90%. Hence, a 10-30% false negative rate has been estimated based on preliminary research. Read more on COVID-19 laboratory testing in Public Health Ontario&#8217;s <span class=\"\">COVID<\/span>-19 Laboratory Testing Q&amp;A article, seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthontario.ca\/-\/media\/documents\/lab\/covid-19-lab-testing-faq.pdf?la=en\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_description_type":[104],"class_list":["post-1062","cu_description","type-cu_description","status-publish","hentry","cu_description_type-back-to-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_description"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_description_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description_type?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}