Chen Yuan-tsung, director of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, thinks that the predictive value of Lin's approach is not high, because saying that someone is "relatively unlikely to contract SARS" is not the same as saying they "will not contract it." Dr. Chen says that only a rate of incidence at least ten times above normal has predictive value for clinical screening.
中研院生醫所所長陳垣崇則認為，林媽利的這項研究「預測值」不高，因為「比較不容易得」不等於「完全不會得」，「機率至少要高十倍以上，才有臨床篩檢的價值，」他說。