Elon Musk is 49 so his risks are very low with COVID. Elon is a multi-billionaire and will be able to get the best treatments.
Having two positive tests out of four then this is 99% likely that Elon has COVID. Early stage COVID rapid tests only have false positives 10% of the time. False negatives are about 30%.
Elon said he had the symptoms of a typical cold with nothing unusual so far.
Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020
A good PCR test should identify if I have the cov2 spike proteins, although I have heard some low accuracy numbers for those too. Hard to get a straight answer.
False positives will roughly scale with # of tests & daily test rate has gone ballistic: pic.twitter.com/Pv6s71jZQo
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020
Lab I just spoke to said cov2 PCR detection (N1 & N3 genes) below 30 cycles is reliable & above 40 cycles is not
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020
SOURCES – Twitter
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