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New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% spe...
That can't be discounted, but if you have two tests that target different epitopes of the virus (hence, independent), the probability of them being wrong at the same time is
p_false1 * p_false2
(probability of independent events), hence much lower.
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