is we don’t have time to be super picky about the data. When actions are made with dirty data there’s always a tendency to revert to the null hypothesis. As a public health official Fauci can’t just do nothing and claim he didn’t have clean statistically significant data.

Many want to know the sens/spec of the testing. Well, there’s no such thing. This is a novel disease and therefore our tests are defining the population. There is no gold standard to compare to I order to determine false positives or false negatives.