The odds are in your favor when it comes to false positive COVID tests.
The study looked at results from more than 900,000 COVID-19 antigen tests, sourced from workplaces across Canada beginning in January 2021 and ending in October. Of these, 1,103 tests returned positive results. Under this workplace testing program, people who tested positive then took a PCR test a few days later. If they tested negative with the PCR test, the initial antigen test was considered a false positive.
Just 462 of the secondary PCR tests came back negative, meaning there were 462 false positives out of more than 900,000 antigen tests — 0.05 percent of all the tests. If you look at just theantigen tests, the false positive rate was higher: about 42 percent of all positive rapid tests ended up being false positives.
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