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I thought the initial testing criteria ideally should have been included a Bayesian standpoint of, what value is added by the test. If someone had a high-risk exposure to a known case, and comes down with typical symptoms in a typical time frame, the probability of Covid-19 infection is sufficiently high that a positive test does not change that probability much (or treatment, or isolation)--so why waste that test when they are scarce.

[oldalum]

I thought the initial testing criteria ideally should have been included a Bayesian standpoint of, what value is added by the test. If someone had a high-risk exposure to a known case, and comes down with typical symptoms in a typical time frame, the probability of Covid-19 infection is sufficiently high that a positive test does not change that probability much (or treatment, or isolation)--so why waste that test when they are scarce.