Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in.
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Emily, thank you so much Griff
all right.
Coronavirus testing is facing
scrutiny after Ohio Governor
MIKE Dewine tested positive for
the virus, despite show nothing
symptoms only to test negative
just hours later,
so how common are false? Positive
tests
here to break it down is Fox
news. Medical contributor,
Dr Marc Siegel,
doctor, welcome, and thank you
for joining us today.
So what are your thoughts on
that?
Just how common are these false
positives,
Emily its more common than
people realize,
and I want to walk you through
it?
First of all, it depends on
something called pretest
probability.
Where are you
are new, an area where there is a
lot of covid 19 or an area where
there is very little?
If you are in an area where
there is very little, then you
believe in negative much more
often,
if you are in a hot spot and
there is a lots of it, then a
positive is more accurate.
Secondly, what kind of test are
you doing,
because Governor Dewine was
doing
Anna Toedoingant again test?
I love those test because they
are rapid and quick and test a
lot of people on them.
They are very similar to what we
do with the flu test,
but they are less accurate than
the test, the gold standard we
have been using since March,
where we look for Gwinnett
particular material.
That is the one that takes
longer to get back in most cases.
His first test was the protein
ant again test
when they got a false positive.
They went ahead and did the more
accurate, Gwinnett particular
test. It
all depends on the test. You get
the answer here and message for
the public. You cant say that
the test is one hundred percent, accurate
in any case,
Emily so doctor quickly. Does
that mean that people should be
seeking out pcr tests and
requesting those so that they
can be one and done rather than
worrying if they got that more
Vegas testvaguetest false positi
thats a great question,
it depends on what your
likelihood is. I, like
Anti General, take a quick look.
Maybe have you it.
The other is more extensive,
look,
maybe confirmatory test.
I like the antigen overall,
better
Emily. Thank you in last sixty
seconds. I want to ask you about
supplies.
Initial supplies of any
successful coronavirus vaccines
are now expected to fall short.
What are your thoughts on the
vaccine or those ancillary
supplies on that?
I want to get under that
headline a little Emily.
We are hearing that whatever
company emerges, we are going to
get one hundred million doses right
away.
We may want three hundred million doses
couple of points.
One, not everybody is going to
take this right away.
I talked to the surgeon surgeon
about this
care about this vaccine surgeon
general, Dr Adams.
We have to convince people to
take the vaccine and high risk
groups first
to say our healthcare workers,
elderly those obese, those at
high risk socioeconomically
disadvantaged.
We have got to get the vaccine
into the areas where its needed
the most, where people are at
most risk of high risk symptoms,
starting with healthcare
workers.
I think we can do this and I
have think we are going to have
enough vaccine
Emily and when you say we, when
you say that we should show we
care, do you mean the average
American?
Do you mean voters?
Do you mean leadership in
Congress?
Who is that we
thats another great
question:
how about our politicians,
how about they be consistent?
How about the messaging be
consistent and public health
officials out there be
consistent the way Dr Adams is
by the way the Department of
Defense is going to be involved
in this.
They will play an enormous role
in getting this out there and
reassuring people along with the
centers for disease control.
We need a consistent message
from leadership and from public.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-08.