The human histamine response system is a clear case of favoring type I error (false positives) over type II error (false negatives). Evolutionally speaking, it's better to feel miserable for a month in the spring and a month in the fall than to die of a respiratory infection, but it still sucks to be at the high end of the survivable part of the combined curve this time of year.
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