Eli5.. How can blood/swab/medical tests give false positive/negative results?

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Testing too early I understand for false negatives, but how do false positive or negative results happen in something like a blood test, for example, when those tests are so specific?

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Contamination, user error, bad calibration of equipment, defective materials, to name a few

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